Crossroads

Jean Willes and Dennis Morgan in Crossroads (1955)

There is the famous DMZ at the 38th parallel where South Korean farmers are purportedly gathering honey. Before the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, you had the famous Checkpoint Charlie but no space between East and West. Back in the 50s There was a Sunday morning religious series, Crossroads, in which a minister, priest or rabbi found themselves at a moment of spiritual conflict. The introduction always had a troubled spiritual person at a four-way intersection which formed a cross. Of course, the most famous of these sufferers, and someone whose story was not part of the TV series, was Oedipus who by running away brought about the very thing he was afraid of. This iteration, itself, is a spiritual axiom. But what is more frightening, finding oneself in one of two hostile zones or inhabiting the unknown world between them?

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