OK. The film is getting heaps of praise, but what is bugging me is that I KNOW there is a poem by SOMEBODY with this title. Google is not helping, as it is full of nothiing BUT the film. Sure, it may not be a SPANISH poet, perhaps a New World guy, but this is driving me nuts. Plus, how 'bout that Antonio B? Why oh why did they not let the composer perform "al otro lado del rio?"
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Posts: 479 | Location: ROCKFORD,MI, USA | Registered: 23 May 2001
The poem is by Ramon Sampedro, the subject of the film. He was a Gallego fisherman who had an accident and became a quadriplegic. He then self-educated himself and wrote poetry, letters, etc. (often holding a pencil in his mouth).
Here's the poem...
MAR ADENTRO
Mar adentro, mar adentro, y en la ingravidez del fondo donde se cumplen los sue�os, se juntan dos voluntades para cumplir un deseo. Un beso enciende la vida con un rel�mpago y un trueno, y en una metamorfosis mi cuerpo no es ya mi cuerpo; es como penetrar al centro, del universo: el abrazo m�s pueril, y el m�s puro de los besos, hasta vernos reducidos en un �nico deseo: tu mirada y mi mirada como un eco repitiendo, sin palabras: m�s adentro, m�s adentro, hasta el m�s all� del todo por la sangre y por los huesos. Pero me despierto siempre y siempre quiero estar muerto para seguir con mi boca enredada en tus cabellos
Posts: 1066 | Location: Madrid | Registered: 10 December 2002
Yes, I know that the guy in the film wrote a poem with that title, but since I had never heard of him or it until recently, it sticks in my head that there is an earlier poet who used that title as well. The memory is not what it once was, of course!
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Posts: 479 | Location: ROCKFORD,MI, USA | Registered: 23 May 2001
