Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade: 3 hexaflex points (acceptance, defusion, committed action)
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- Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade
- 3 hexaflex points
- When Indiana is just about to get to the holy grail, he finds himself stuck at the edge of a seemingly bottomless chasm. He reads a riddle that suggests that the only way to get across the chasm is to take a leap of faith. So he steps out into mid air, seemingly to fall to his death. Instead, he finds that there is actually a hidden bridge that was built to blend seemlessly into the backdrop of the chasm and his step lands on terra firma. Whew!
- The scene illustrates committed action, in that Indiana takes a step towards his quest even when unsure of the outcome. It illustrates willingness/acceptance in that the move is leap of faith, requiring him to make room for his fear. And it illustrates defusion in that while his mind tells him he is going to fall to his death, he is willing to suspend that judgment, and when he actually steps out into a seeming void, he finds that this was an illusion.
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Contact with the present moment-- Albert Markovski (Jason Schartzman) experiences contact with the present moment in two instances. First occurs when he meditates inside of a duffle bag and comes to the awareness of the lack of edges separating his reality. Lesson--everything is connected. A second instance occurs when he and Tommy Corn (Mark Wahlberg) take turns hitting themselves with a rubber ball to notice the point just before one can tell the difference between pain and it's absence.
Acceptance-- is evident in the motto of the movie-- "No manure, No magic"
Defusion--best scene in the film occurs when both existential detectives (Lily Tomlin & Dustin Hoffman) repeat to Brad Stan (Jude law) a sentence he has just uttered again and again just like the Milk, Milk exercise. (Who am I if I'm not myself).
Self-as-context--occurs as Brad Stan is asked who he would be if he could stop repeating the same story to everyone about how clever he is when he convinced Shania Twain that her sandwich wasn't made of chicken salad when it really was. In this moment, Brad is challenged to let go of his favorite peice of self-propaganda (self-as-content) to see who he would be in it's absence.
Values-- Dawn (Naomi Watts) makes a choice to forgo "having to be" the beautiful spokesperson for Huckabee's chain stores. She dons a bonnet, binge's on chocolate, and refuses to look the way Brad Stan (her boyfriend) demands her to look. At one point she asks Brad if he would love her with the bonnet and he says no, precipitating their break up.
Commitment--In the last scene of the film, environmental activist Albert Markovski invites his firefighter friend Tommy Corn to join him in an act of civil disobedience by chaining themselves to a bulldozer designated to destroy a wetland preserve. Tommy asks if he should bring his own chains, and Albert replies, "We always do." Translation--the problem that prevents us from living our values might also be the very thing we need to ensure their execution.