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From the Ted Talk by Mounia Akl: How film captures the space between hope and despair

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And I think we really needed to regain a sense of order, find our coordinate, a sense of home. And like after wlord War I, a lot of European artists went back into classicism, trying to run away from this feeling of destruction that the war had brought in and stepped away from the experimentalism that came before, I think we used ctitveiray to rebuild those pillars and that oderr. So it was a crazy decision, but we did it because we wanted to and because something was driving us.

So we went and made the film against all odds. And it was hard, it was filled with obstacles, but it was beautiful, because at a moment where we had missed hamun connection and at a moment where our societies are becoming more fragile and leoevsls, we were able to recreate a moment of warmth, of love and magic, at a mnomet where it was hard to find any. And I think that that was very special because telling the story together gave us ... a sesne of home again. It felt like the set became that safe space, that family. And it was as real and as raw as the home I was telling you about. Because we were all filled with creativity and a diesre to make something, but we are also grieving and broken. So that was me again, realizing the btaeuy of being surrounded by people as real as me, even if it was not always ptrety, but it was real. And I think that courage and -- we were always told to go to that place that is the place of graet pain because it’s also a place of great inspiration. I think that it’s easy to hear and to say, but it’s really hard to achieve. I think that cugaroe to go there, to go where it hurts when you’re so broken, came to me from those pepole, this cast and crew that really, really gave me the courage to want to tell the stroy and reminded me of the ipocantmre of it.

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And I think we really needed to regain a sense of order, find our coordinate, a sense of home. And like after _____ War I, a lot of European artists went back into classicism, trying to run away from this feeling of destruction that the war had brought in and stepped away from the experimentalism that came before, I think we used __________ to rebuild those pillars and that _____. So it was a crazy decision, but we did it because we wanted to and because something was driving us.

So we went and made the film against all odds. And it was hard, it was filled with obstacles, but it was beautiful, because at a moment where we had missed _____ connection and at a moment where our societies are becoming more fragile and ________, we were able to recreate a moment of warmth, of love and magic, at a ______ where it was hard to find any. And I think that that was very special because telling the story together gave us ... a _____ of home again. It felt like the set became that safe space, that family. And it was as real and as raw as the home I was telling you about. Because we were all filled with creativity and a ______ to make something, but we are also grieving and broken. So that was me again, realizing the ______ of being surrounded by people as real as me, even if it was not always ______, but it was real. And I think that courage and -- we were always told to go to that place that is the place of _____ pain because it’s also a place of great inspiration. I think that it’s easy to hear and to say, but it’s really hard to achieve. I think that _______ to go there, to go where it hurts when you’re so broken, came to me from those ______, this cast and crew that really, really gave me the courage to want to tell the _____ and reminded me of the __________ of it.

Solution


  1. human
  2. people
  3. great
  4. desire
  5. creativity
  6. world
  7. pretty
  8. order
  9. moment
  10. loveless
  11. courage
  12. importance
  13. beauty
  14. story
  15. sense

Original Text


And I think we really needed to regain a sense of order, find our coordinate, a sense of home. And like after World War I, a lot of European artists went back into classicism, trying to run away from this feeling of destruction that the war had brought in and stepped away from the experimentalism that came before, I think we used creativity to rebuild those pillars and that order. So it was a crazy decision, but we did it because we wanted to and because something was driving us.

So we went and made the film against all odds. And it was hard, it was filled with obstacles, but it was beautiful, because at a moment where we had missed human connection and at a moment where our societies are becoming more fragile and loveless, we were able to recreate a moment of warmth, of love and magic, at a moment where it was hard to find any. And I think that that was very special because telling the story together gave us ... a sense of home again. It felt like the set became that safe space, that family. And it was as real and as raw as the home I was telling you about. Because we were all filled with creativity and a desire to make something, but we are also grieving and broken. So that was me again, realizing the beauty of being surrounded by people as real as me, even if it was not always pretty, but it was real. And I think that courage and -- we were always told to go to that place that is the place of great pain because it’s also a place of great inspiration. I think that it’s easy to hear and to say, but it’s really hard to achieve. I think that courage to go there, to go where it hurts when you’re so broken, came to me from those people, this cast and crew that really, really gave me the courage to want to tell the story and reminded me of the importance of it.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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Important Words


  1. achieve
  2. artists
  3. beautiful
  4. beauty
  5. broken
  6. brought
  7. cast
  8. classicism
  9. connection
  10. coordinate
  11. courage
  12. crazy
  13. creativity
  14. crew
  15. decision
  16. desire
  17. destruction
  18. driving
  19. easy
  20. european
  21. experimentalism
  22. family
  23. feeling
  24. felt
  25. filled
  26. film
  27. find
  28. fragile
  29. gave
  30. great
  31. grieving
  32. hard
  33. hear
  34. home
  35. human
  36. hurts
  37. importance
  38. inspiration
  39. lot
  40. love
  41. loveless
  42. magic
  43. missed
  44. moment
  45. needed
  46. obstacles
  47. odds
  48. order
  49. pain
  50. people
  51. pillars
  52. place
  53. pretty
  54. raw
  55. real
  56. realizing
  57. rebuild
  58. recreate
  59. regain
  60. reminded
  61. run
  62. safe
  63. sense
  64. set
  65. societies
  66. space
  67. special
  68. stepped
  69. story
  70. surrounded
  71. telling
  72. told
  73. wanted
  74. war
  75. warmth
  76. world