[Gocamino] Video question

[blaroli at aol.com]

Hi Mary,
I can only tell you that I love the DVD, in every way, and everyone that I've shown it to, particularly pilgrims, has liked it a lot.
Despite its length, it has been shown three times to fairly large groups in my own parish to much applause.?The nuns who run the school attached to the parish have?nothing but praise for it.... so I guess that we don't share your views of its?"portrayal of Christianity".??In fact, I've gotten phone calls from two Episcopal churches asking to borrow the video, and upon its return the letters of thanks were full of appreciation for its merits. A female priest of one of the Episcopal churches that borrowed it has made the pilgrimage twice, and she liked the video so much that I gave it to her. 
I personally know four New Yorkers who went to the Camino inspired by the DVD, and I've heard of quite a few others.... for myself, every time I see it I can't wait to go back!
But then, as it is said? in Spanish : "En este mundo traidor nada es verdad ni mentira, todo es segun el color del cristal con que se mira" (In this treacherous world nothing is just so, everything depends on the color of one's eyeglasses).
I guess so.

Hugs!

Rosina
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-----Original Message-----
From: Mary V. Wallis <mvwallis at pathcom.ca>
To: saintjames at yahoogroups.com; GOCAMINO at oakapple.net; blaroli at aol.com
Sent: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 10:05 pm
Subject: Re: [Gocamino] Video question


HI everyone - I have read the various responses to Within the Way Without, and feel the need to reply because I am curious to know if I am the only one who found it tedious, overdone, overly solemn, took itself way too seriously, and unbalanced in its portrayal of the pilgrim experience. It left me depressed. I never want to see it again because parts of it actually felt unhealthy to watch.?
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Some of the scenery was nice, and it wasn't all bad, but it left me feeling sad and depleted. I felt the Japanese Buddhist had the clearest view of what pilgrimage is, and the portrayal of Christianity was morbid and self-obsessed. The shots of the home countries of the pilgrims was a gross distraction and I didn't get the point, or rather the point was so obvious that I wondered why they kept beating it to death.?
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I am not a crank. I just didn't think it was that good, either technically or story-wise, or that representative. No offense. Did anyone else have my negative response??
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thanks, Mary?
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----- Original Message ----- From: <blaroli at aol.com>?
To: <saintjames at yahoogroups.com>; <GOCAMINO at oakapple.net>?
Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2007 8:18 PM?
Subject: [Gocamino] Video question?
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> Hello you all,?
> While transferring the video "Within the Way Without" from PAL to NSTC so > that someone in the U.S. may watch it I got to see it all over again.?
> It is simply wonderful.... in every possible way.?
> It was made professionally by someone named Laurence Boulting who seems to > be an experienced British director and producer. The narration is provided > by Richard Attenborough who made the movie "Ghandi" some years ago.?
> The video follows three pilgrims to Santiago, a Catholic man from Holland, > in his fifties or so, who started out from SJPP in the winter, a young > Buddhist poetess from Japan who started out in the Spring, and a young > woman from Brasil who, like a great many Brasilians, combines Catholicism > with a type of Africa-based religion like Condonmble and Macumba.?
> All three start out at SJPP and the video shows them getting their > credential either in SJPP or Roncesvalles and going through ever step so > well known, and so dear, to most of us.?
> The three express their impressions and their emotions throughout, in a > manner that we will understand all too well because we have felt them, > although we may not have been able to put them into words as eloquently as > these three.?
> I don't think that a stone is left untouched in the emotional garden.... > and the eloquent expressions are all too beautiful and too true. The Dutch > man, for instance, refers to the churches and monuments as "Human > representations of a spiritual idea and the truth behind it".... and he > speaks of the Camino being "as invisible as music".... and on, and on.?
> The cinematography is superb, and the flashes back and forth to the > pilgrims hometown and their return thereto is unbelievably touching.?
> The familiar spots, and people, are there (Majarin, Jato, and so on)... > and the hospitaleros and albergues will bring soul-homesickness to any > pilgrim.?
> The video may be ordered directly from the Saint James Confraternity > through their website. So far I have purchased three (gave away the first > and lost the second), and they all arrived in New York within a week of > being ordered at a total cost, including postage, of about $25.00 U.S. > Dollars.?
> The name of the video is odd:" Within the Way Without" and I must admit > that I do not understand its meaning. It seems that the name was taken > from a haiku (a 17-syllable Japanese verse from) which reads: "The paths > separate and meet again within the way without". The video also shows a > name in Spanish which is, simply, "Three on the Camino".?
> And here is my question: Why is the video only available in PAL, and, more > importantly, why are there no subtitles in other languages. While at the > beginning of the video there is a choice of languages for SODs (?), > apparently this applies only to the signs on the screen. The narrative is > in English, and when the Japanese young woman speaks, or thinks aloud, > English subtitles appear, as they do when the Brasilian pilgrim speaks.?
> I know that I am a perfect dolt when it comes to computers and such, and I > am hoping that I've missed something in the DVD which would allow for > subtitles in other languages. I would so very much like to share this > wonderful DVD with my Spanish, Brasilian and Italian friends.?
> Of the twenty, or so, good DVDs about the Camino that I have seen this one > is the best, by far, period. True, the Spanish TV people have made some > wonderful ones (two last year), but they are pretty much in a reverential > documentary style and, while beautiful and informative, they lack the > human every-day-of-a-pilgrim touch that this "Within the Way Without" > contains so magnificently.?
> If you get it, you'll find answers to the questions that keep repeating > themselves here: "Why make the Camino?" "What is the meaning?" "The > purpose?", "Faith or no-faith?", "What if you don't finish?" And the small > epiphanies that begin to emerge as one drops the many layers and busyness > of life and faces the simple act of walking.?
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> Hopefully someone reading this message can tell me whether, and how, > subtitles in other languages may be revealed.?
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> Hugs!?
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> Rosina?
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