realms

We exist in concentric realms, and our multifarious lives can only be lived.

Whether something or nothing lies beyond, there comes a time when the motion of life is suspended forever, the consciousness trapped in its final internal state even as it wanders in realms detached from Earth.

“David also worked harder than anyone I know in the conservation movement,” he said, “to introduce low-income kids and their families to natural realms beyond their neighborhoods.”

A showman who, as the author of “The Colored Museum,” was fully at home in more abstract realms of playwriting, he knew how to balance radical theatricality with more conventional storytelling panache.

Soderbergh forces his audience to remain open to the possibility of other realms by conveying exactly what it would be like to be trapped in one, begging to be acknowledged.