I recently remembered that I can access a wide range of documentaries, educational series and world cinema on Kanopy. Kanopy is a streaming platform, a sort of less glamorous Netflix, screening some unexpectedly popular gems like Perfect Days by Wim Wenders, a movie that I have wanted to see since it came out in 2023.

Being able to see this reflective movie was a real treat. Everything in life is moving so fast lately, and it seems that no matter what we do: life gets ever more tangled.

Relationships fall apart as communications break down. Life is becoming more lonely at a time when what we all need is solace in closeness. But it is easier to be alone than to be in confrontation or in polar opposite political disagreement. This is a little personal. I’ll leave these words hanging in the air, unresolved.

As I browsed the Kanopy catalogue I saw that they have Golda, a film about the Yom Kippur War starring Helen Mirren.

The film is calm and quiet but tense and hits a nerve in my soul.

Here is a briefest summary of the Yom Kippur War from Britannica: “Yom Kippur War, fourth of the Arab-Israeli wars, which was initiated by Egypt and Syria on October 6, 1973, on the Jewish holy day of Yom Kippur. ”