Why a heart will devote it's will to love another, even when the love is lost. But is it lost?
Two scenes are bought to mind. One is from The Searchers (1956), when Ethan encounters Debbie finally after years of searching. When he holds her and takes in consideration her face, what does he say? It is a very complicated scene, mixing Ethan's lost love for Martha and his devotion to keep faithful to that love, even beyond the judgment he feels in Debbie's circumstances. Devotion's power takes over his anger and hate. The other is of a lesser-known film, but no less beautiful scene of devotion in Enchantment (1948), when Sir Roland Dane drifts into a nap, to be with Lark, a woman he loves decades earlier, and who comes to him to embrace a revelry of years ago. In the end, we have no doubt they are together, simply for the strength of their devotion to one another. Are we too sophisticated now for such narrative in storytelling? I would like to believe we are not. But can I tell it in current themes? That is my challenge.
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