The Movies that Made Me

We learn more than we can imagine from movies 🍿

I'm saying that literally.  We literally learn more than we can imagine from movies.  Movies expand our brains and allow us to grow and shape our opinions, experiences, and ideas.  

Movies allow a writer, director and cast of characters to tell a story so vividly we almost live it with them for the time we are watching, listening and experiencing their emotions for ourselves.  How else can you experience emotions you have never experienced? It's a preview of what is out there that you might run into.  It teaches everyone the problems we face and must solve if we want to be happy.  Ignoring or turning our back on this craft is an error of humanity.  It could be survival of the fittest biggest fail.

Movies Made Me makes it sound like I have no free will, but 

Initaited by the pandemic, as growing older and nostalgic, I have re-watched all of my favorite movies from life throughout the past five years.  I loved them so much more upon re-watching that I decided I needed to buy physical copies for my collection just so I will always have them at the ready. 

Throughout my life, I have been drawn to some unique favorite movies.  They are not unique because they are all huge hits with big followings, but as I re-watched them, I found common threads that I think are what drew my interest to these movies as a kid.

Groundhog Day, starring Bill Murray and Paxton and Andie MacDowell came out in .  I don't know how I first came to watch it, but I do remember watching it over and over again on a sick day on the couch.  Now why would I watch a movie that is all about repeating, on repeat.

As an adult, I disovered the film is really about waking up and realizing that we only get one life and it's up to us to live the best version of it. 

Life

Love

Death