I'm going to start to say, yes, it's predictable but as they say, "it's not the destinatination that's important, it's the journey".
This is a great hidden gem dug up by Netflix. It took them more than 3 years but someone loved this movie enough to dig it up and put it out there and right he/she was. Thank you!!!
I cried, I laughed and everything in between. It's the kind of movie that I like and the fact that it touches so many personal things that they cleverly intertwined in a good script makes it a movie that I love!!! The great performances of the actors not withstanding. And the excellent soundtrack. More of this later.
So, to understand why this movie touched me so, I have to talk about myself. It's not something people usually do in movie reviews but I will do it anyway. You can stop reading if you want.
You're still reading? Ok, then. First the little things. One of my favourite songs is "Lightning Crashes" from Live and as some of you have probably seen the movie as you're reading this, you know that it has a prominent part at some point in the storytelling. As we learn more about Sudeikis's character, we discover that music has a big part in his life. And the music, as in any good roadtrip, has a great role to play here. And of course it's the kind of music that has a lot of meaning in my life too.
I've been an amateur photographer for a decade and this end of Kodachrome, as a symbol of the end of analog....the coming of age of the digital era and the dissappearance of physical media. Not unlike "The Secret life of Walter Mitty" it talks about stopping time to enjoy what we have, see or hear instead of the digital mass consumption. Not ironically did I watch this on Netflix....
Yes I understand That every life must end
These are the first words from a song from Pearl Jam used in the movie. And as I understand them completely, it is always hard to lose someone close. I lost my father too soon to prostate cancer. I discovered grief. I reassure you, my relationship to my dad was more of the positive kind, at least, when I was an adult. But he was, at times, not an easy man. So, yes there's a little bit of Ben in him or is it the other way around?
And as much as this movie talks about photography, love for art, broken hearts, regrets, nostalgia, legacy, life choices,.... it talks mostly about loss, and does it very very well.
This is a great hidden gem dug up by Netflix. It took them more than 3 years but someone loved this movie enough to dig it up and put it out there and right he/she was. Thank you!!!
I cried, I laughed and everything in between. It's the kind of movie that I like and the fact that it touches so many personal things that they cleverly intertwined in a good script makes it a movie that I love!!! The great performances of the actors not withstanding. And the excellent soundtrack. More of this later.
So, to understand why this movie touched me so, I have to talk about myself. It's not something people usually do in movie reviews but I will do it anyway. You can stop reading if you want.
You're still reading? Ok, then. First the little things. One of my favourite songs is "Lightning Crashes" from Live and as some of you have probably seen the movie as you're reading this, you know that it has a prominent part at some point in the storytelling. As we learn more about Sudeikis's character, we discover that music has a big part in his life. And the music, as in any good roadtrip, has a great role to play here. And of course it's the kind of music that has a lot of meaning in my life too.
I've been an amateur photographer for a decade and this end of Kodachrome, as a symbol of the end of analog....the coming of age of the digital era and the dissappearance of physical media. Not unlike "The Secret life of Walter Mitty" it talks about stopping time to enjoy what we have, see or hear instead of the digital mass consumption. Not ironically did I watch this on Netflix....
Yes I understand That every life must end
These are the first words from a song from Pearl Jam used in the movie. And as I understand them completely, it is always hard to lose someone close. I lost my father too soon to prostate cancer. I discovered grief. I reassure you, my relationship to my dad was more of the positive kind, at least, when I was an adult. But he was, at times, not an easy man. So, yes there's a little bit of Ben in him or is it the other way around?
And as much as this movie talks about photography, love for art, broken hearts, regrets, nostalgia, legacy, life choices,.... it talks mostly about loss, and does it very very well.
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