16 May 2023
Ben,
In remembrance of your Birthday today. I would like to share with you a film I recently viewed , " After Life," by Kore-eda Hirokazu , the Korean Director, whose films I am sure you would have enjoyed.
" After Life,: is a film about what happens after death , where people have a week to choose only one memory to keep for eternity. It makes the dead and us the viewers question on what is the quality of one's life? What is it in this life that we would like to keep with us forever? What comprises our favorite memories and how do we understand our lives in relation? What do we do with these memories and how do they shape us?
It is an innovative story that this film presents . Film and your career in television will be in memory for a long time. My seeing your performance In the Play " A Skin of Our Teeth," at Wayne State University, opened up a portal to my love of Theater, which in turn, I have introduced over the years to my students. Our ideals of intensity and experience are connecting threads.
You taught me , over the time we knew each other, that true happiness is in the time we give to others , and through creative acts, which you have done over time in your career.. Film, is the food, that has actors last forever in the eyes of an audience.
Maria Bessa Asvos