Heartbreak. I think we have all experienced it and I bet it had something to do with some disturbance in the romantic force field, as it is, damn, a powerful field of force. Though this term is apt to capture lost romantic love, to simply leave it within the rubric of romance is to rob it of the richness it holds to convey some fundamental characteristics on the human condition, that of human connection.
A few days ago, a 13 year old Maori girl was nominated for the best actress category for her performance in Whale Rider, a movie about a tribal elder