The inclination to go back home is probably one of the biggest themes that permeates all of human art: literature, cinema, paintings. It's an alluring concept because, as Thomas Wolfe once said, you can't go home again. Because home isn't a place, it's a state of mind, a mental box containing your childhood obsessions, your fraught or precious moments with your family, the foolish ambitions of youth. You can go back to the location you grew up, sure, but most of the time that desire is rooted to...
The inclination to go back home is probably one of the biggest themes that permeates all of human art: literature, cinema, paintings. It's an alluring concept because, as Thomas Wolfe once said, you can't go home again. Because home isn't a place, it's a state of mind, a mental box containing your childhood obsessions, your fraught or precious moments with your family, the foolish ambitions of youth. You can go back to the location you grew up, sure, but most of the time that desire is rooted to...
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