One Very Important Thought

The US Government knows things that they are not telling us. I know there's a lot of nutjob conspiracy theorists who claim this all the time, but I think I have some pretty solid evidence that this statement is far from false. Last night I had a dream. In the dream I was watching a renegade documentary on the AIDS virus. In the documentary they claimed that the US Government has attempted to wipe from existence any record of a 70s science-fiction film called Grey's Thoughts. From what I can recall from my dream, the film was set on Earth sometime in the future (everyone was wearing the same white jumpsuits, so I assume it was the future). Like 1984 the people are informed that there is a major war taking place, however, some of the people soon discover that the war is a bogus lie. But it is this knowledge that leads to grave illness and subsequent death. The documentary was implying that there was some aspect of this film that touched too close to home about the AIDS virus for the US Government, and hence their attempts to delete all trace of it from existence. Upon waking, and being somewhat intrigued by this dream of mine, I opened my personal laptop computer and performed a Google search for the film Grey's Thoughts. The search turned up no record of such a film ever existing. Now this could just mean that the film was a complete invention of my sub-conscious, or it could mean that the US Government have been successful in its attempt to destroy any evidence of this film's existence! This is something that requires further investigation.

Although I have ample time for such an investigation now that the 36 year-old Singapore Airlines hostess and I have agreed to an amicable separation, I felt I deserved to do something a little more relaxing than challenging the world's only super-power to reveal its deceits. So instead I went to see a film at the Nova Cinema Complex in Carlton. Monday is cheap day at the Nova and all films before 4pm are only $5.50. The film I went to see was Så Som I Himmelen or in its English title, As It Is In Heaven. The film is actually from the year 2004, however for some unknown reason has only been released in Australia in the year 2007. It concerns a world-renowned musical conductor, Daniel Daréus, who, after suffering a heart-attack, decides to return to the northern Swedish town of his early youth. There he is persuaded to help the town's church choir, and although he is initially reluctant, he eventually finds great joy in the process. He also finds love with one of the members of the choir named Lena, whose boobies the audience gets to see on two separate occasions.

As It Is In Heaven demonstrates the importance art plays in portraying the glories of the human spirit. Whilst it may not tackle a politicised subject, like Grey's Thoughts does, it is a wonderful example of what humans can achieve when they work together and not against each other. Viewed through that prism As It Is In Heaven contains a similar theme to that of Grey's Thoughts. The US Government should not be trying to hide what it knows about the AIDS virus, nor should it be trying to prevent art being made the sheds light onto the truth about its existence. Art that deals with major problems engages the public in an attempt to find solutions. Just as Daniel Daréus found solutions to both the church choir's problems and his own personal problems through a shared love of music, maybe, just maybe a film like Grey's Thoughts can go some way to helping solve the AIDS crisis that the world is currently facing.