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watching a chick flick . . .
Published Nov. 6, 2009Views: 234
. . . may be what you'd never expect an old rebel to do, but on this day off, with my feet sore as Hades from an ebbing gout flareup, a evil boil beneath my shoulder blade that feels like forty 'leven wells...I figured a good "chick flick" would be just the way to spend the afternoon. With a bowl of my own concocted trail mix, a tumbler of Welches Grape Juice on the rocks...I sat and swam back in time.
When this movie first came out, I didn't go to the theatre to see it. Just seemed like a waste of time to see Clint doing this kind of movie in my then forty year old macho mind. Too much testosterone was swimming in my blood veins. Too much me.
Now I sit, lose myself in a movie like this and wonder. How can so much humanity be compressed into the film screen? How can such emotions be conveyed from those who make such a movie, to those of us who can sit and immerse our consciousness into it's depths? Why didn't I see it as clearly then?
Maybe it's just me. I've always liked Clint in just about everything I've seen him put his talents to. From Rowdy Yates to Frankie Dunn to Walt Kowalski, Clint has always made the character seem so real, so alive. :) Even those spaghetti westerns where his sneer became internationally imitated but never duplicated are classics now.
But this movie of a roving NatGeo photographer strikes a chord. A story of a chance meeting between two ships passing in the night. One, anchored in a safe harbor while the other one strives against the tides and the waves to vanish over the horizon line. This is the stuff that makes a great movie. It helps one forget the aching that seems to be our lot in life. Or at least endure it.
The Choice For Her Lifetime Made
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Nice to see the softer side of OR. heheheheh....
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November 7, 2009 8:31 a.m.
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November 7, 2009 8:07 a.m.
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November 7, 2009 8:05 a.m.
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November 7, 2009 7:26 a.m.
This is one of the best movie endings of all time. I'm sure everyone has had thoughts of "what would I have done??" while watching it.
And special kudos to the fine directing and acting by Clint Eastwood - definitely shows a different side from "Dirty Harry."
FE
November 7, 2009 1:15 a.m.
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November 7, 2009 12:23 a.m.
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November 6, 2009 11:57 p.m.
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