And the winner is...............
I guess I should go see some of these movies....The Hurt Locker, The Blind Side, The Last Stop, And Precious? Avtar? Yawn. Only If I have a large popcorn. I saw Chariots of Fire again over the weekend. What a marvellous movie. And Goodfellas was on last week on TCM. But I digress. We love movies because they remind us of ourselves. What we are, what we can be, what we could be, what we could've been. We love movies becasue they allow us to escape into someone else's life. We can sit anonymously in the dark and watch a stranger go and make a muck of it. Or a resounding sucess. Or we can watch them die. Characters in movies are us - magnified. Sometimes we watch them negotiate a situation we have been in. Sometimes it's a foreign situation but we relate to them nonetheless. It's that universality if triumph over disaster, love gone wrong/right, death, disease, growing up , getting married, getting divorced, working, laughing, playing....we've all been there. Next on m