The Refuge (film)
The Refuge or Hideaway is a 2009 French drama film directed by François Ozon and starring Isabelle Carré and French singer Louis-Ronan Choisy, who wrote the music for the film and the title song. The script was written by Ozon with Matthieu Hippeau.
The film won the Special Prize of the Jury at the 2009 San Sebastián International Film Festival. It opened in Paris January 27, 2010 to generally lukewarm but not unkind reviews. It was released in the US by Strand. It was part of the uni-France/Film Society of Lincoln Center series the Rendez-Vous with French Cinema in March 2010 with screenings at the Walter Reade Theater and IFC Center.
Plot
Louis and Mousse, a couple in their early 30s, are doing drugs in bed in a luxurious half empty Parisian apartment. A drug dealer brings them six grams of heroin and Louis injects Mousse and himself with it. The next morning, rising early; Louis gives himself another shot, which is fatal.
Louis' mother arrives trying to rent the apartment, and she discovers the couple: Louis is dead from an overdose, but Mousse is alive. She is taken to a hospital where she finally awakens. Mousse is informed of the death of her boyfriend and that she is pregnant. After Louis' funeral and burial, his mother, bluntly, tells the confused Mousse that they do not want an heir for her death son and that they have made arrangements to terminate the pregnancy. Louis’ brother, Paul, looks on, empathizing with Mousse.
The Refuge (The Outer Limits)
"The Refuge" is an episode of The Outer Limits television series. It first aired on 5 April 1996, during the second season.
Introduction
Raymond Dalton stumbles through a forest in a vicious snow blizzard before finally collapsing. He wakes in a warm and comfortable log cabin with a group of people, only to be told that the entire world is blanketed by an enormous storm, and he has found the only safe place.
Opening narration
Plot
Raymond is told by Valle that an organism was discovered by a deep sea drilling rig that "polymerized" the world's water supply causing it to have a much higher freezing temperature. (This is similar to the ice-9 substance from Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle.) This created a sort of reverse greenhouse effect that lowered the world's temperature to uninhabitable levels.
Valle brought the people here to the cabin for various reasons. Raymond begins taking a liking to Gina and is shocked by the behavior of the others in the cabin, varying from religious fanaticism to violent jealousy to adultery. He is further astonished by how all the people in the cabin randomly switch personalities en masse from time to time. He gradually notices that Valle is unaffected by the changes and odd behaviors and realizes that he is in control. He confronts him and asks how he does it and Valle's only response is "Let's just say that I can and leave it at that." He kidnaps Gina (who at this point has switched personalities and become the religious fanatic) and leaves the cabin hoping to find another safe place. He talks to her and gradually she begins to remember who she is when there is a "reset" and Raymond finds himself talking to Valle in the cabin again. Valle demonstrates his power by giving Gina the adulterous personality. Just as he is about to assault Valle, he is stopped by a sheet of blue energy that seems to hurt him.
Refuge (Buddhism)
Buddhists "take refuge" in, or to "go for refuge" to, the Three Jewels or Triple Gem, (aka the "Three Refuges"). This can be done formally in lay and monastic ordination ceremonies.
The Three Jewels general signification is:
Refuge in the Triple Gem is common to all major schools of Buddhism.
Faith (saddha)
Faith is an important teaching element in both Theravada and Mahayana traditions. In contrast to perceived Western notions of faith, faith in Buddhism arises from accumulated experience and reasoning.
In the Kalama Sutra, the Buddha explicitly argues against simply following authority or tradition, particularly those of religions contemporary to the Buddha's time. There remains value for a degree of trusting confidence and belief in Buddhism, primarily in the spiritual attainment and salvation or enlightenment. Faith in Buddhism centres on belief in the Three Jewels.
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