On Films

I don’t typically write in this blog in a way that is very revealing.  I don’t use it like an online journal because I think that my thoughts are something I always like to share like(http://www.livejournal.com/) some(http://www.xanga.com/?) do.  However today I’m feeling a little different and I thought that I’d dig a little deeper.

Ian and I setup ourselves with a Netflix account and I’ve been enjoying it immensely.  We have a large number of movies in our queue that would normally cost hundreds of dollars to rent but this way is only costing us $17 a month.  The beauty of such a thing is that I can watch movies I haven’t seen, movies I’ve been meaning to, and movies that I simply have to see.  The list is long and I don’t think that the queue in any way fills the holes entirely just some of them.

I just finished watching one of those “been meaning to” watch movies and I’m very glad I did.  The movie wasn’t spectacular, it didn’t win awards, and I watched it by myself because I figured that I’m about the only person that wanted to watch it at the moment.  Movies have a funny thing about them.  You watch them and sometimes it’s as if you’re looking into a world that you’ve never known, never will know and probably never want to know.  Other times they’re so abstract or far fetched that you can’t feel like you are apart of the movie at all.  These situations are just fine.  Films, movies, and flicks; they’re entertainment.

Entertainment is all well and good but sometimes movies hit home.   You come across a movie that you empathize with the situation or the characters because they are neither unlike you or in an dissimilar environment.  Add a plot that doesn’t seem all that unlike your life and you have a film, that although insignificant to others, strikes a tone with you.  The movie I watched today was one of those movies.  Not extraordinary and not written to be deeply meaningful but it was both, to me.

When I picked up the movie to watch it and slid it out of the sleeve that Netflix provided to me, little did I know that I would enjoy it as much as I did.