It was helpful to know that this was part of a work inspired by anger at the goings on of the last decade. Through that lens, it's pretty simple, actually.
The boy is us as people, indifferent in our day-to-day behavior to the fact that civilization is has already spun out of control, driven by war and greed. The coin is the shiny distractions and meager comforts that keep us complacent in the fsce of its destruction. War and greed have already won and God has left the Earth.
The girl is indeed the loss of innocence, whether by rape or just life, born to tears and betrayed by a God who has left her to suffer alone.
The boy doesn't even appreciate the coin, and throws away what little he has of value on an empty wish for something more. And so he walks to the town that all of us have burned, that idyllic hometown that no longer exists if it ever did, long ago emptied of its soul by strip malls and chain stores. It is ourselves we have betrayed.
God has left the Earth, and we no longer care for anyone but ourselves, and that will be the end of us.
I don't know how to react to this interpretation, because I completely agree with it, but at the same time it makes me so sad to think that we're tearing our own world apart. Not just the physical world, but also ourselves. How far we have fallen, we lost children of the world. It's a picture that is both sadly beautiful and horrifying in its utter truth, and there is little that can be done to stop it if the world continues as it is now.
I don't know how to react to this interpretation, because I completely agree with it, but at the same time it makes me so sad to think that we're tearing our own world apart. Not just the physical world, but also ourselves. How far we have fallen, we lost children of the world. It's a picture that is both sadly beautiful and horrifying in its utter truth, and there is little that can be done to stop it if the world continues as it is now.
It was helpful to know that this was part of a work inspired by anger at the goings on of the last decade. Through that lens, it's pretty simple, actually.
The boy is us as people, indifferent in our day-to-day behavior to the fact that civilization is has already spun out of control, driven by war and greed. The coin is the shiny distractions and meager comforts that keep us complacent in the fsce of its destruction. War and greed have already won and God has left the Earth.
The girl is indeed the loss of innocence, whether by rape or just life, born to tears and betrayed by a God who has left her to suffer alone.
The boy doesn't even appreciate the coin, and throws away what little he has of value on an empty wish for something more. And so he walks to the town that all of us have burned, that idyllic hometown that no longer exists if it ever did, long ago emptied of its soul by strip malls and chain stores. It is ourselves we have betrayed.
God has left the Earth, and we no longer care for anyone but ourselves, and that will be the end of us.
I don't know how to react to this interpretation, because I completely agree with it, but at the same time it makes me so sad to think that we're tearing our own world apart. Not just the physical world, but also ourselves. How far we have fallen, we lost children of the world. It's a picture that is both sadly beautiful and horrifying in its utter truth, and there is little that can be done to stop it if the world continues as it is now.
I don't know how to react to this interpretation, because I completely agree with it, but at the same time it makes me so sad to think that we're tearing our own world apart. Not just the physical world, but also ourselves. How far we have fallen, we lost children of the world. It's a picture that is both sadly beautiful and horrifying in its utter truth, and there is little that can be done to stop it if the world continues as it is now.