Hideouts or Sacred Spaces?

Hideouts or Sacred Spaces? Experts Baffled by Mysterious Underground Chambers - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International:

"All of the radiocarbon dating analyses completed to date indicate that the tunnels were built in the Middle Ages, challenging the validity of the prevailing school of thought. It holds that the tunnels were built during the Migration Period (known as the 'Völkerwanderung' in German) in the 5th and 6th centuries, when entire tribes left their homes and abandoned the cemeteries of their ancestors. The assumption was that the tunnels and galleries were created so that the dead could still be venerated."

On the other hand...

映画『結び目』予告編

Not bad how it begins, the sparse dialog, the puzzling relationship between the two main characters. But I'm perhaps too cynical to accept that people might decide it is time to heal and just carry on for the rest of their lives following train tracks they set when they were still damaged goods. This movie, given the subject matter, the multiple scenes of implied or explicit violence against women would never have been made in the USA. What I liked is the sense of this movie as an alien product: trying to understand it, feeling moved by it no matter what, is a reward in itself.

1,778 Stories of Me and My Wife

1,778 Stories of Me and My Wife (2011)

A science fiction writer finds out his wife has cancer, and decides to write her a story every day to keep her alive, like a reverse Scheherazade, or perhaps to cope with the inevitability of his loss.

The stories, or what the viewer sees represented, are quirky, slightly anachronistic, 50s style classic sci-fi bits, that creep into the narrative as funny,  campy sketches that mix fiction and reality.

The movie is inspired by real life events. Japanese science fiction writer Taku Mayumura wrote a story a day since his wife was diagnosed with cancer. The 1778 stories he wrote for her have been published after her death in 2002.

It's a beautiful movie, about how writing can be a way to cope with grief and loss. World premiere at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival.