+- Logan -- 187d -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------[...]+ | | | You guys, the whole point of the classic Steve McQueen film, The Great Escape, is that ultimately they don’t escape, | | at least not physically. That life is a series of successive confinements, BUT, nevertheless, it is the community we | | build, the ATTEMPT to escape with others, that is in its own way a kind of spiritual escape, a freedom of the heart. | | | | McQueen’s character fails in his attempts to escape alone. It’s when he joins the others that they find something | | that transcends the confines of the prison. | | | +-- reply ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ [1 reply] ---+You guys, the whole point of the classic Steve McQueen film, The Great Escape, is that ultimately they don’t escape, at least not physically. That life is a series of successive confinements, BUT, nevertheless, it is the community we build, the ATTEMPT to escape with others, that is in its own way a kind of spiritual escape, a freedom of the heart. McQueen’s character fails in his attempts to escape alone. It’s when he joins the others that they find something that transcends the confines of the prison.
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You guys, the whole point of the classic Steve McQueen film, The Great Escape, is that ultimately they don’tescape, at least not physically. That life is a series of successive confinements, BUT, nevertheless, it is thecommunity we build, the ATTEMPT to escape with others, that is in its own way a kind of spiritual escape, afreedom of the heart.McQueen’s character fails in his attempts to escape alone. It’s when he joins the others that they findsomething that transcends the confines of the prison.
There was a time in my life when i watched this film basically on repeat.
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