SELF
How is Your Faith
Such a simple question and yet such a difficult one to answer
I was watching Crown season 3 episode 7 ‘Moondust’, and I was awestruck by the brilliance of the story, direction and the acting of Matt Smith — the actor who played Prince Phillip. But what resounded with me more than any of that was the perspective that was shared by him.
He, in his capacity as the Prince, literally has everything or at least can get everything at his disposal or so you think. But then they show you, not everything really — he asks for a 15 minutes private meeting with the three astronauts and the manager very reluctantly agrees.
The beauty of perspective
He is in awe of the three astronauts who have just created history by landing on the moon and in his fan sort of appreciation has followed every second of that story. But later during his brief conversation, he realizes that these are no gods or superhumans.
With all due respect for their fantastic feat and historic achievement, they lacked the personality or the inspiration or wisdom that Prince Phillip was looking for in these young men.
And when he realizes they might have achieved this astounding success and written history but they are still some young…
