The movie I love this week (and now, and forever) is Elizabethtown.
Nevermind that this film is written by one of my favorite screenwriters (Cameron Crowe of Jerry Maguire & Almost Famous fame....though he has plenty of other masterpieces to pick and choose from), and nevermind that I love both Kirsten Dunst and Orlando Bloom (though that is a big draw), this film has the unfailing ability to make me happy at any moment in time.
As a former film snob (my undergrad was in film production), I have come to appreciate the ability to acknowledge that I like certain films without justification. Elizabethtown is, by far, not Crowe's best work, and yet, it makes me smile. And isn't that the base of it all?
Film is entertainment. And what a great many things that word "entertainment" encompasses. But at its core entertainment is something that makes us feel something. Makes an audience relate to some aspect of the human condition, whether that be romance or grief or tragedy or all of the above and thensome.
In my case, any time a film makes me feel any of these emotions or all of the above, I lump it into the category of "inspiring." And not in the "inspirational film" way...like Tuesdays with Morrie or Pay It Forward...but in the way that experiences are genuinely moving.
And it's hard to be genuinely moving in the modern age. It's so much easier to fake compassion, empathy. But no matter what it comes across as forced. It cannot compare to scenes like this one:
I know it's not for everyone, and it hardly has the impact of the "You had me at hello" scene from Jerry Maguire. But when a film can make me feel as though there are worse things than failing (which, in essence, is the worst thing that could possibly happen to you), then, hey...who am I to knock it?
Because at the end of the day, I like stories about epic shortcomings that cause the utter downfall of the main character. Because that's how I think most people feel on a daily basis. ("God, I have to get up and do this nothing again? To what? Go home and do nothing?") But there are times that move us all...and it's those moments in between: the "flurry of almost-romance," the missing of exit 60Bs, the near misses of life that result in fiascos. These things provide grounding. They afford us the opportunity of reflection.
And no one reflects better on life lessons we should have learned than Cameron Crowe.
Impossible to forget but hard to remember,
Iconically Leni
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