Such a beautiful and insightful review- thank you! I’ve always loved the movie- quite magical and joyful as you say, and so subtlety showing how goodness can actually triumph over evil. And like the joyful saints it doesn’t do so by horrifying us.
I’ve been sharing your essay with family and friends.
By the way, along the same lines, in the movie “Enchanted April”, the character Lottie similarly changes the lives of all around her with her decision to love. I think about her all the time and she makes this film perhaps my favorite movie. In the beginning of the film in gloomy London she confesses she was “parceling out her love” but in the glories of an Italian spring full of wisteria and sunshine she changes and loves with such joy and abandon that so everyone around her begins to choose love as well- marriages are healed, friendships made, loneliness overcome in this @tub of love”.
Please consider writing an essay on Enchanted April - I would love to read your thoughts, and perhaps like your “Life is beautiful” essay you could help me understand better why I love the movie so much!
Such a beautiful and insightful review- thank you! I’ve always loved the movie- quite magical and joyful as you say, and so subtlety showing how goodness can actually triumph over evil. And like the joyful saints it doesn’t do so by horrifying us.
I’ve been sharing your essay with family and friends.
By the way, along the same lines, in the movie “Enchanted April”, the character Lottie similarly changes the lives of all around her with her decision to love. I think about her all the time and she makes this film perhaps my favorite movie. In the beginning of the film in gloomy London she confesses she was “parceling out her love” but in the glories of an Italian spring full of wisteria and sunshine she changes and loves with such joy and abandon that so everyone around her begins to choose love as well- marriages are healed, friendships made, loneliness overcome in this @tub of love”.
Please consider writing an essay on Enchanted April - I would love to read your thoughts, and perhaps like your “Life is beautiful” essay you could help me understand better why I love the movie so much!
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Added to my watchlist for sure. :)
I’m worried about re-watching it around other people in case I start crying profusely.
Thank you for reviewing this.