May We All Find Gold

Five years ago today, a man changed. What started off as a pedestrian interaction with nature — “a hike,” he might’ve thought, “just like all the others” — transformed, in a word, everything. Behold this new discovery, behold this instance of unbridled joy, this pure call of euphoria, the shattered belief in lonely rainbows. What we have hear is magnificent, crystallizing moment of a man becoming one with nature — or did he become two?

In the last moments of the film — and a film it truly is, as it contains all the elements of a story (discovery, faith, the possibility of a third rainbow), the auteur takes a deep breath. “Oh my god. It’s so intense,” he sighs, truthfully. Sort of like life, you know?