Wheel of Time
I haven’t seen any discourse around this yet, but I really want to know what people make of the fact that Goncharov means “Potter”.
Because so many mythologies use the symbolism of clay as the raw material of existence (especially humanity) and the one who shapes the clay on the wheel as the creator of life, I can’t help but think that it was a deliberate choice. I mean: look at all the symbolism already packed in. The apples, the clocks, that lingering moment in the revolving door.
Maybe I’m going overboard here, but it feels like, along with all the stuff about fate and time, we should also be looking at creation and destruction, about what Goncharov’s choices mean in catalysing either. Knowing Scorsese and his motifs, I think it’s entirely possible that, even then, he was also adding a meta-layer about film-making and the way a movie (or any piece of media) echoes the path of a life (an individual, a family, a concept, a nation, a thought), and how the imagery in a piece of media takes life inside the observer’s mind.
Food for thought, anyway.
