I don't really care how much the latest superhero film took at the box office, although I'd probably know if you asked me. When I watch a film the main thing I am looking for is a good story. I like it when I look up at the big screen and can see a part of me staring back at me. More than anything, I am still looking for Jimmy Stewart and Jack Lemmon and Billy Wilder in every film I see.
"The bus is running, it's time to leave, the summer's gone, and so are we."
This song, this version of this song, is exactly how I feel today.
Counting Crows - Miami (acoustic)
How do you feel? Youtube links in the comments please!
"If you knew everything, If you could see everything before it happened, then what would you do? If you knew that the love you threw away, that it meant everything to her, If you knew that you could ruin her, then what would you do?"
There's something great about two people connecting on screen. It can be at it's most powerful when it's done without words - or sometimes even more so when it's done through music, in some way.
This moment in 'Into The Wild' is my favourite part of the film, if not any film. Chris McCandless has been on his journey into the wild, full of these ideas and ideals of his place in the world-- and then he meets this girl. And he's passing through, and she's falling for him.. and as it turns out, they're not meant to be together. But for this one minute, as they sing this song -- they have more of a connection than most of us have in a lifetime. And it's moment like this that really leave me in awe at the true power of the cinema.
"Just give me one thing, that I can hold on to
To believe in this living is just a hard way to go"
