In the same vein as the previous post, This film is also "family friendly." It has the theme of the gift of life and love. Somehow we as human beings cannot figure out how it is that anything good happens at all. We philosophize about suffering and the bad things that happen, but what of the good things, why is life not complete hell, we are alive and we can love and are loved, it seems stupid that we do not talk more about the gift and beauty of life, love and the world we live in.
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Sometimes I worry that I've lost the plot. My twitchin' muscles tease my flippant thoughts. I never really dreamed of heaven much until we put him in the ground, but it's all I'm doing now - listening for patterns in the sound of an endless static sea. ~ Conor Oberst
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- Dr. Strangelove or: how I learned to stop worrying...
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We are lonesome animals. We spend all of our life trying to be less lonesome. One of our ancient methods is to tell a story begging the listener to say-and to feel- ‘Yes, that is the way it is, or at least that is the way I feel it.’ You’re not as alone as you thought. —John Steinbeck
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