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I have not felt like blogging these past few days so I didn't. However, I do not want to fall off the wagon entirely so here I am. On Thursday, I went with my brother to see Georgia Shakespeare's As You Like It. It was well done, and my favorite speech "All the world is a stage..." was one of the best I have seen. Very well done. I have been an avid Shakespeare enthusiast since the age of 13. This particular speech I referenced as my total favorite can be found inside the front cover of just about every high school note book I ever used along with practice doodles in the margins and favorite as well as made up quotes at random. You might be able to demise that I paid a great deal of attention in class. Ummm we won't go there. Anyway, my brother enjoyed the play so much that we decided to be theater goers more regularly. I highly recommend the movie version of As You Like It if unable to get to a live performance the cast does a nice job.
Yesterday I watched yet another sad movie called Reign Over Me. This was an awesome movie though even as it was heart breaking in parts. This was a wonderful cast with Adam Sandler (best serious performance I have ever seen him do), Don Cheadle, Liv Tyler, Jada Pinkett-Smith, and Donald Sutherland. Adam Sandler's character lost his wife and three daughters in one of the plane crashes on 9/11, and Don Cheadle's character runs into him randomly years later and recognizes his old college roommate. The two become friends again, and the friendship begins to heal a seriously screwed up man (Adam Sandler) as well as help the Don Cheadle character rediscover why he is unhappy with his life and what he should do to change what he doesn't like. Yes, this is a freaking sad movie, but I keep thinking about why I was drawn to watch it. First, I would like to reference a Dr. Who episode entitled "blink" where the main character states that "sad is happy for deep people". So here is a situation where a man has lost everything important to his happiness in a very terrible way and reduced to a point in the human condition where sanity is actually damaging to his day to day survival because he remembers his extreme loss. The only thing left to this man are his hobbies such as playing instruments and his deep love of music. There is another man who has everything that is the polar opposite who possess everything one could need to be happy like a beautiful loving family, a successful career, a nice home, and yet is completely unhappy with a lost sense of himself. They reunite in friendship with NOTHING in common, one sane and the other insane, and slowly they begin to heal. Now this is where I find the interest to watch and examine such sad stories is that after such great loss we are able to not only heal but even love again. That friendship and the simple act of giving your time and love to someone can bring them back from the brink of insanity and unhappiness is extremely comforting to me. I know, I know I have crossed the boundary to the realm of cheesy, but it is not the less true.
You will be glad to know that I have several happy movies on my agenda such as Mama Mia. I am not afraid to admit I love ABBA and I have been known to jump right up and dance and sing their songs at the top of my lungs no matter where the location so you have been forewarned. I take especial delight in doing this from time to time at random with students, and its even better when I can get another teacher to join in.
Yesterday I watched yet another sad movie called Reign Over Me. This was an awesome movie though even as it was heart breaking in parts. This was a wonderful cast with Adam Sandler (best serious performance I have ever seen him do), Don Cheadle, Liv Tyler, Jada Pinkett-Smith, and Donald Sutherland. Adam Sandler's character lost his wife and three daughters in one of the plane crashes on 9/11, and Don Cheadle's character runs into him randomly years later and recognizes his old college roommate. The two become friends again, and the friendship begins to heal a seriously screwed up man (Adam Sandler) as well as help the Don Cheadle character rediscover why he is unhappy with his life and what he should do to change what he doesn't like. Yes, this is a freaking sad movie, but I keep thinking about why I was drawn to watch it. First, I would like to reference a Dr. Who episode entitled "blink" where the main character states that "sad is happy for deep people". So here is a situation where a man has lost everything important to his happiness in a very terrible way and reduced to a point in the human condition where sanity is actually damaging to his day to day survival because he remembers his extreme loss. The only thing left to this man are his hobbies such as playing instruments and his deep love of music. There is another man who has everything that is the polar opposite who possess everything one could need to be happy like a beautiful loving family, a successful career, a nice home, and yet is completely unhappy with a lost sense of himself. They reunite in friendship with NOTHING in common, one sane and the other insane, and slowly they begin to heal. Now this is where I find the interest to watch and examine such sad stories is that after such great loss we are able to not only heal but even love again. That friendship and the simple act of giving your time and love to someone can bring them back from the brink of insanity and unhappiness is extremely comforting to me. I know, I know I have crossed the boundary to the realm of cheesy, but it is not the less true.
You will be glad to know that I have several happy movies on my agenda such as Mama Mia. I am not afraid to admit I love ABBA and I have been known to jump right up and dance and sing their songs at the top of my lungs no matter where the location so you have been forewarned. I take especial delight in doing this from time to time at random with students, and its even better when I can get another teacher to join in.