
(No pauses between the pieces.) A fine artistic 1, 2, 3 from the Coen brothers 19 - "A quarter century later": - "what a friend we have in jesus" played slowly and with pathos. This segment in the movie is a meditation on time. Having a friend in Jesus, in God, is insinuating the eternal into our earthly years. In the movie we see the grown up Maddie - this change over time is itself a wonder. 20 - @1:14 "The Grave" - the piano then segues into an equally slow and meditative rendering of 'Leaning on the Everlasting Arms" when the little girl, now grown, is visiting the grave of the one who saved her life. During the long reflective notes, it makes you wonder about the characters and how they related to each other. It also makes one wonder about one's own life and relations with others, too. This song, 'Leaning on the Everlasting Arms' is played throughout the movie with different instruments, cuts, and tempos as a motif. It is played here at the end as a summary statement of the happenings during the preceding movie. Yes, Blackie, Maddies loyal horse, running to exhaustion, and Rooster Cogburn then even carrying the poisoned Maddie across the cold darkling plain in his arms, illustrate those everlasting arms, the eternal in the temporal. Those selfless acts make the eternal pour into the hours and days. In those acts, there is a blending of the boundaries between self, other, and setting, so that in a sense the pulse of Blackie running with Rooster carrying Maddie, is the <b>...</b>
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