Hana, heart knots.

Hana needs to soften the heart knots.
She needs to become curious not furious.
She needs to learn how to let herself off the hook.
She needs to learn 'every decision I make is a choice between a grievance and a miracle.'
Deepak Chopra.

“True forgiveness is not an action after the fact, it is an attitude with which you enter each moment.”

-David Ridge.

This is the challenge and the quest Hana's needs to embark on.
With clarity, she will learn to see the bigger picture of her fear, her guilt, her chronic low self esteem. Then she'll be ready to walk though a new door into a new life. Then she'll have tasted miracles.

My challenge: how does she believably get clarity ? How does she change her attitude towards herself?
I really don't want to make her a detestable person to start off, but Hannah Margaret was anything but nice: passive aggressive!

Hana, a passive aggressive when we first meet her as 58 year old ?

3.30. Another breakthrough !!

Love how this happens so 'accidentally.'
I've been reading reviews of award winning world cinema films this afternoon. One of my favorites is the Russian movie The Island. Riveting and such a clever surprising ending. I discover it has won a string of awards.

In Hana's journey with Samira to Bolivia to find long lost estranged daughter Shifra, it will appear that Hanna isn't going to make it.
Everything suggests she will have to give up and go home. What could this event be?

An illness? Altitude sickness, heart attack?
A communication from Shifira she won't see her mother?
Might she lose Smaira in the chaos of La Paz?

Or all three ?
Something must happen to make her heroes journey all the more heroic at the end.

The film needs to be deeply poetic, deeply engaging, deeply moving. And believable.