I liked this movie a lot. This is the type of movie I would want to make someday. Can't say why. I guess I just liked how there were so many mini stories being told in one big story. I guess, maybe, it seems like more people are more likely to learn from a story that tells many stories; you know? If you make an hour long movie about just one story, maybe that story will hit home with a few people. But suppose you make a movie about 5 mini stories; isn't it likely that some of the mini stories will touch some people, and the other stories will touch the other people? It seems to me like these mini stories woven together make for more impact, because there's more variety, to match the variety of your audience.
Perhaps I also liked it just for its uniqueness. Who doesn't want to hear/tell a unique story?
So, two totally separate questions that I was wondering about:
Why is sitting with your mother under a clothesline a better memory to keep forever than a memory of Disneyland? What if your mother was at Disneyland with you? Would one be better than the other? What makes some memories worth keeping and others worth forgetting? Or are they all equally valuable?
One of the characters in this movie refused to choose a memory. He said it was his way of taking responsibility. How so? I really don't get that one.
Taking responsibility - so what I took from that was, if you choose one happy moment you can forget all the bad decisions you made in your life and act like they never happened. If you choose to remember them all you take ownership and responsibility for the bad decisions instead of just going 'magic way to make all the mistakes I meant go away for me and just live one happy thing for the rest of...eternity? YAY!'
ReplyDeleteOh, yes, I see now. Ha.
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