Ghost Bikes To Honor The Ones We've Lost
Ghost Bikes is a short documentary film directed by Ethan Brooks that honors the memory of a cyclist in New York. A young man named Mirza puts up these bikes and as the film goes on, he explains his reasons for doing so. It all traces back to a woman he loved and how he lost her too quickly. At the very heart of it, the film shows how easily people can be forgotten in the world, particularly in a fast paced city like New York. These ghost bikes are used to immortalize those that are gone and in doing so, their memory becomes a work of art.
The fact that the bikes become pieces of artwork is significant. It expresses that the dead mattered and that they were a part of the world. I, personally, …show more content…
No evidence." The way he says those words is telling of how the living world tries to erase the dead. We clean up anything that stains our lives with misery. We box up their old clothes, put the ashes in an urn or bury, and we just carry on. People are remembered sure, but when someone passes away, the response is usually along the lines of "Move on."
"She had a very specific elegance and grace to her. It was almost like she was from another time." I love this quote because there are always details about a person that come to mind right way when you think of them. There are words that can sum up what you love about someone and here, Mirza stated quite eloquently why he loves her. Sometimes the extent of why we love someone can be a tough thing to put into a few words.
Life is very fast paced, but New York specifically is a city known for having everything be in a rush. Because of this pressure to do everything all at once and get it done faster and faster, there is a lack of focus on details. When we're all moving at warp speed, we miss things. We forget. We move on without realizing what we've really lost. This film is beautiful because it shows the significance of loss. It's not about just moving on from something because it hurts or the pain is too great. What is far more challenging, but potentially beneficial than simply carrying on is to find a way to make room Life isn't solely good or bad. It's a million shades of gray and that means we need to let the pain seep into the nectar of the sweeter moments
Ghost Bikes is a short documentary film directed by Ethan Brooks that honors the memory of a cyclist in New York. A young man named Mirza puts up these bikes and as the film goes on, he explains his reasons for doing so. It all traces back to a woman he loved and how he lost her too quickly. At the very heart of it, the film shows how easily people can be forgotten in the world, particularly in a fast paced city like New York. These ghost bikes are used to immortalize those that are gone and in doing so, their memory becomes a work of art.
The fact that the bikes become pieces of artwork is significant. It expresses that the dead mattered and that they were a part of the world. I, personally, …show more content…
No evidence." The way he says those words is telling of how the living world tries to erase the dead. We clean up anything that stains our lives with misery. We box up their old clothes, put the ashes in an urn or bury, and we just carry on. People are remembered sure, but when someone passes away, the response is usually along the lines of "Move on."
"She had a very specific elegance and grace to her. It was almost like she was from another time." I love this quote because there are always details about a person that come to mind right way when you think of them. There are words that can sum up what you love about someone and here, Mirza stated quite eloquently why he loves her. Sometimes the extent of why we love someone can be a tough thing to put into a few words.
Life is very fast paced, but New York specifically is a city known for having everything be in a rush. Because of this pressure to do everything all at once and get it done faster and faster, there is a lack of focus on details. When we're all moving at warp speed, we miss things. We forget. We move on without realizing what we've really lost. This film is beautiful because it shows the significance of loss. It's not about just moving on from something because it hurts or the pain is too great. What is far more challenging, but potentially beneficial than simply carrying on is to find a way to make room Life isn't solely good or bad. It's a million shades of gray and that means we need to let the pain seep into the nectar of the sweeter moments