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As it is in heaven is the english name for the movie. The film was directed by Kay Pollak, interestingly he has a Ph D and is a university teacher in Mathematical Statistics. This is a Swedish film and I just watched it on channel msnbce.

A very short summary of the film: A successful international conductor suddenly interrupts his career and returns alone to his childhood village in Norrland, in the far north of Sweden.It doesn't take long before he is asked to come and listen to the fragment of a church choir, which practises every Thursday in the parish hall. Just come along and give a little bit of good advice. He can't say no, and from that moment, nothing in the village is the same again. The choir develops and grows. He makes both friends and enemies.

Actually it is a slice taken out of real life. What struck me was the wife of the village priest one day shouts at her husband and says that there is no sin and there is no damnation, god does not judge. All this nonsense is made up so that people can be manipulated and ruled.
 
Beautiful movie :cry: thanks for sharing. Don't think I would have watched a choir movie unless it had been recommended here.
 
I watched it a while ago and really liked it. Not so much for any "profound" meaning, but because it showed some simple every day interactions between people, which CAN make a difference in people's lives when they communicate, share and bond together, and deal with even just their basic issues. You'd THINK that it is obvious, but we know ourselves here that sometimes we can miss dealing with very simple issues trying to become more conscious. It was depicted in a very simple way, which a lot of people can understand. That's really what I liked about it, plus the stimulation of the vagus nerve through singing. :)

From a cultural point of view, I found it interesting too, to see how people live in a remote town in the North. some of their customs are strange for someone coming from the Southern Hemisphere.
 
Ailén said:
From a cultural point of view, I found it interesting too, to see how people live in a remote town in the North. some of their customs are strange for someone coming from the Southern Hemisphere.
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Coming from the north, the types and mannerisms were familiar to me and both their transformation and Daniel's (conductor) finding back to his roots with them was perhaps the reason for half of the buckets of tears I cried over this movie.

I did find a profound voice (or ear) behind this movie through as you say the simple interactions (and the healing in a co-linear forum as the choir in some ways is). It seems there is a theme of recapitualation: Daniel's dream is to make music that opens the hearts of people, which he can only find through travelling back to the hurt and fear that has disconnected and seperated him from the music. We see early on in his professional music carreer that he is eaten up by the disingenuous voice/tone that comes from not being in touch with emotions only reading from the paper (intellectual). The influence of pathology on the emotional disconnect is also well done IMO, by the characters of dogmatism (priest and church) and childhood hurt (bully).

Ailén said:
It was depicted in a very simple way, which a lot of people can understand. That's really what I liked about it, plus the stimulation of the vagus nerve through singing. :)
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Yes, the simple depiction for many to understand is valuable. Even though the Vagus nerve is not mentioned it seem to show that by their building of voice and breath that they are connecting to them selves and each other in more constructive ways.
 
Watched this movie today and find it to be beautiful movie. Couple of songs were fantastic to say the least.
 
Gaby said:
Oh yes, I liked "Gabriella's song" very much ;D
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Yes, that is a beautiful song with wonderful lyrics (against the context of abuse she went through)
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It is now that my life is mine
I’ve got this short time on earth
And my longing has brought me here
All I lacked and all I gained

And yet it’s the way that I chose
My trust was far beyond words
That has shown me a little bit
Of the heaven I’ve never found

I want to feel I’m alive
All my living days
I will live as I desire
I want to feel I’m alive
Knowing I was good enough

I have never lost who I was
I have only left it sleeping
Maybe I never had a choice
Just the will to stay alive

All I want is to be happy
Being who I am
To be strong and to be free
To see day arise from night

I am here and my life is only mine
And the heaven I thought was there
I’ll discover it there somewhere
I want to feel that I’ve lived my life!

If this does not inspire you, I don’t know what will…
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