MAN BOUGHT A HOUSE
This short clip really did a good job of showing how those things we think to be absurd are actually intensely meaningful. The idea of a man marrying a rat is just plain stupid....but this film makes it look beautiful. How can it do that?
It behaves like a comedy; the man has a new house but this rat is annoying him, so he tries to kill her but in doing so ironically wins the love of the rat and they are married. However, this is not just something to laugh at and be done with...I find its absurdity beautiful. Why? Honestly, it's a bit of a mystery, but if I had to give a reason I would say it's because, in the moment you see the rat undergo a change of heart, it reveals something ultimately human in nature...something that makes us actually delight in the turn of events. I think our desire for love from others runs very deep, and we have been taught that we have to earn that love. But when our efforts fail and we fear rejection, then comes this beautiful, absurd, comedic thing called grace. And that is precisely what goes on in this film. The rat has this deep, stuffed desire to be loved, but is not really expecting to receive it. So when she sees that the man is being nice to her (even if it is a mistaken assumption), that desire is brought out into the open because it finally has a place.
Ultimately, I think this is a parable of the Gospel...we do not deserve God's love, but He gives it to us anyway - and it looks absurd to us, but we accept it nonetheless because that's the reality we find ourselves in, and it's just what we need.
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