By Michaela Gordoni
Actor and Director David Henrie explores the beauty of the world around him in his documentary, SEEKING BEAUTY.
“The old is becoming new again,” he told Movieguide® of the beauty he witnessed in his travels. “I think the old-world beauty is going to continue to make a resurgence. I think millennials, Gen Z, alpha, they’re all craving the everlasting.”
Unlike other travel docs, Henrie asks “Why?” in his new encounters.
“We do we go deeper and we analyze culture from all different angles,” he explained. “And we just try to understand what made these cultures so everlasting and so new. you know, these places have been around for thousands of years and still attract millions upon millions of visitors. Why is that?”
He comes at it from a layman’s angle. He asks experts questions about things he notices, or what a common person might ask.
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“The works of beauty themselves have been very impactful on my life. Very impactful. But the story of the people who built the things have been more impactful,” he said.
“The faith of the folks that have made these creations have really stuck with me… I was like, ‘Whoa, that’s the faith of the people who built these things.’ They believed so much that they would invest countless hours in putting statues places that no one would see, but God is in the heavens looking down, so he’ll see it.”
He told Busted Halo that the documentary reflects part of his own journey.
“Beauty is the door — when you open it up, truth and goodness are on the inside. Beauty is the first thing that attracts; It’s the language of the divine. You know that God is beautiful because you look at nature, and God didn’t shortcut beauty from nature,” he said.
“I was so wrong as a young person to think that beauty was not welcome in a man’s life, because it is a way to get to know God. You are what you surround yourself with, and like Aristotle says, you learn through images,” he said.
Henrie says people used to have stronger awareness of how beauty impacts people’s psychology.
“Images form and if you put beautiful images around your output will be beauty and who’s the author of beauty? God,” Henrie told Movieguide®. “So they very much understood that there’s an objective impact that beauty has on the common good and they did not separate it out of what they built.”
The series is available now to stream for free on the Eternal World Television Network.
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