tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-83763969038666204722011-04-21T22:08:04.640-05:00A guy talking about movie themes, being a grad student at Ohio State, and other mindless ramblingsWhoDaThunkIthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11891875746325451024noreply@blogger.comBlogger21100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8376396903866620472.post-32802392199796425482007-01-06T08:06:00.000-05:002007-01-06T08:07:01.674-05:00“I am only one, but I am one. I can't do everything, but I can do something. The something I ought to do, I can do. And by the grace of God, I will.”<br /> Edward Everett Hale quotes<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8376396903866620472-3280239219979642548?l=hittingmystride.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>WhoDaThunkIthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11891875746325451024noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8376396903866620472.post-49730754873995106922006-12-06T08:15:00.000-05:002006-12-06T09:30:10.986-05:00I saw the movie Bobby recently. Critics tore it up, but I loved it. I mean Sharon Stone was simply amazing in the movie. But here were the 'take homes' I was left with:<br />What hope some people represent and yet they are taken so soon.<br />Bobby - he met with black leaders and poor Appalachian people, spoke with (not to) them, and was loved.<br />Princess Diana - held people with AIDS at a time when fear and ignorance reigned. Though, I argue they still do today.<br /><br />But most of all I was left thinking how I viewed the <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">assassinations</span> of JFK, Bobby, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)">MLK</span>, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2" onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)">et</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3" onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)">al</span> as these public events when they were actually intensely personal moments for their families and friends. I mean how crass is it that somehow I lost that these were people just like me, except that their lives are our entertainment and their deaths are for public display. Much akin to the 9-11 tragedy when families request that we stop showing the planes slamming into buildings, though all these events incorporate a public mourning with grief and sympathy, there can truly not be empathy since most people simply have not experienced similar loss.<br /><br />So, yeah critics, maybe the movie wasn't what you felt it should be, but for me it was all the thoughts that went through my mind about themes in the movie ( and just to reiterate, I liked the performances as well for what it is worth ).<br /><br />So I leave with this, who is our Bobby today? Who is uniting all voices, holding the dying, preaching peace and love?<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8376396903866620472-4973075487399510692?l=hittingmystride.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>WhoDaThunkIthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11891875746325451024noreply@blogger.com0