UnquietDreams
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Day 27 - A movie with your favorite line
There are more profound lines, more epic lines, more romantic lines, more funny lines, more famous lines. But this one is important to me if no one else. It resonated with me the first time I saw it in the theater, and it resonates with me still. In The Crow, Eric has been allowed to come back from the land of the dead, carried back by a crow, to seek rude justice for the murder of his fiancé with surety and violence against the gang who killed them both. In this scene he is talking to the cop who sat for hours in the hospital with Shelly so that she wouldn't die alone. It is a small, quiet beat between the violence and destruction.
"Nothing is trivial." Those here who know me well have probably heard me use that phrase. The line gave a framework for something that I knew in my heart, but hadn't been able to put into words. A meal, a book, a trip to the library with your kids, a kiss, a word-- all little things, everyday things, trivial things. But they are all important, and should be cherished -- everyday magic. The little things make up the big things, and the big things become life. Nothing is trivial. And it is all important to me. An odd, nontrivial lesson in a Goth masterpiece.
The Crow (1994)
"If the people we love are stolen from us, the way to have them live on is to never stop loving them.
Buildings burn, people die, but real love is forever."
There are more profound lines, more epic lines, more romantic lines, more funny lines, more famous lines. But this one is important to me if no one else. It resonated with me the first time I saw it in the theater, and it resonates with me still. In The Crow, Eric has been allowed to come back from the land of the dead, carried back by a crow, to seek rude justice for the murder of his fiancé with surety and violence against the gang who killed them both. In this scene he is talking to the cop who sat for hours in the hospital with Shelly so that she wouldn't die alone. It is a small, quiet beat between the violence and destruction.
"Nothing is trivial." Those here who know me well have probably heard me use that phrase. The line gave a framework for something that I knew in my heart, but hadn't been able to put into words. A meal, a book, a trip to the library with your kids, a kiss, a word-- all little things, everyday things, trivial things. But they are all important, and should be cherished -- everyday magic. The little things make up the big things, and the big things become life. Nothing is trivial. And it is all important to me. An odd, nontrivial lesson in a Goth masterpiece.
The Crow (1994)
"If the people we love are stolen from us, the way to have them live on is to never stop loving them.
Buildings burn, people die, but real love is forever."
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