Breakthrough

Immediately after Red blows his harp, the film transitions to a black screen and then a wall is broken through with a sledgehammer. We are caught up in Red’s voiceover about the “expansion of the library, etc.,” but what is most significant is the idea that Red has now made a momentous spiritual breakthrough. It’s as if, as a result of his “Crossing the Threshold,” his “Metanoia” that Red’s soul has undergone a substantial expansion. Red is now entering the unseen and mysterious depths of his own being; that place where the ground of God and the ground of the soul share a likeness.