“Take your broken heart and turn it into art. “This is the phrase with which Meryl Streep finished her wonderful and incredible speech when she received her well-deserved Golden Globe this year, it was just over a minute, when words became art and each fragment was like a pill that filled us with admiration.
We’re not trying to talk here about the true purpose of the speech, or its addressee, as we already know, President-elect Donald Trump soon realized that he was the target of the message and issued a response. The character’s long-awaited trajectory did not live up to the moral and emotional quality of the renowned actress.
- “Disrespect invites disrespect.
- Violence incites violence.
- And when the powerful use their position to intimidate others.
- We all lose” Meryl Streep-.
For our part, we want to immerse ourselves in the last part of the discourse; in the phrase that, in an epilogue, perfectly reflects a principle of overcoming and absolute personal growth: “Take your broken heart and turn it into art”. This phrase was actually advice Carrie Fisher gave Meryl Streep a long time ago.
Not everyone knew that behind princess Leia’s image was actually a brave woman, a warrior fighting addictions, bipolar disorder and a constant struggle to become a Hollywood screenwriter. Carrie Fisher realized something her mother would have taught her, too, the outstanding one. and actress Debbie Reynolds recently passed away.
Art, whatever its form and channel of expression, is a wonderful way to release emotions and heal broken hearts, and not just that. Art also gives us dignity as individuals, allowing us to do our best to share with others.
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Meryl Streep’s speech did not merely criticize the president-elect without pronouncing his name, his goal was to deepen something else: the crisis of values that a country lives, where, for a given property, he forgets a very concrete aspect. it’s not just entertainment. Art is culture, it is the magic of diversity, freedom and it is a medium where a common legacy of inspiration and learning is formed.
Art, moreover, is therapy. We all have in mind more than one film and a book that came to us at the right time, when we needed it most, however, many of us are not only passive recipients of the art world, some of us also use it as a means of expression, as catharsis and as a magnificent instrument to give voice to our emotions, to expand our freedom and , on the other hand, to reach others.
Active art is an artistic exercise that is practiced with the hands or body and has the power to heal. An example, both illustrative and captivating, can be seen in the 1995 film “Quilt of Patchwork”. In this musical film, the lives of several women are exposed, and one of them has a very concrete custom. Whenever she had a disappointment, that she was betrayed by someone or when sadness kissed her heart, she would break a vase, a glass or a plate.
He then carefully picked up each broken piece and glued them to the wall. Over the years, she realized that she had created a work worth admiring. On this multicolored, chaotic and diverse wall, he hid the broken pieces of his heart, transformed into art.
Let us return to the speech of Meryl Streep, who with his words reminded us again how the world of art and empathy relate in a wonderful way, in fact, if there is a dimension that strongly pumps the heart of every person connected to the artistic world. whether it’s acting, music, poetry, painting or writing, it’s definitely empathy.
“Art is the expression of the soul that wants to be heard
So didn’t Meryl Streep hesitate to declare that he had a broken heart, seeing how the new president of the United States appreciated new York Times reporter Serge Kovaleski, who has a motor disability due to a congenital illness.
In fact, behind that there is something that does not go unnoticed, the world of art and the business world, from which the new tenant of the White House comes, come from two completely opposite scenarios, that we cannot ignore in the business context, words? empathy? and? emotional intelligence? under the term ‘innovation’. In other words, they are dimensions unknown and until recently very useless and totally unproductive.
In conclusion, since we are forced to live in a strange, complex and very contradictory time, we cannot forget the wonderful and comforting channels offered by the art world, they are a means of expression, as well as being a connection with our emotions and those of others.
Art makes us human and, in turn, creates extraordinary people, such as Meryl Streep hem.
Here’s the speech for you to see.