Comments on: the power of movies http://www.joelafferty.com/2009/09/08/the-power-of-movies/ ...enabling purposeful conversations... Tue, 06 Dec 2011 07:38:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Joe Lafferty http://www.joelafferty.com/2009/09/08/the-power-of-movies/comment-page-1/#comment-9651 Joe Lafferty Tue, 08 Sep 2009 18:34:56 +0000 http://www.joelafferty.com/blog/?p=833#comment-9651 Hi Allan, thanks for comment & welcome! The Straight Story is an incredible film. It's a very powerful, and slow, story about the simple and yet important things in life. Connecting, coming close, touching, being. Imbued with humanity, both suffering and joy, darkness and light. The story is all around an old man who is disconnected from his brother, who has a stroke. He then decides to go on his lawn mower across two states to see him. The movie is all about this journey - based on the true story of Alvin Straight. It's a must get and watch many times... let me know what you think when you watch it. Joe PS - remember watching Cyrano de Bergerac with Gérard Depardieu?? Hi Allan,

thanks for comment & welcome!

The Straight Story is an incredible film. It’s a very powerful, and slow, story about the simple and yet important things in life. Connecting, coming close, touching, being. Imbued with humanity, both suffering and joy, darkness and light.

The story is all around an old man who is disconnected from his brother, who has a stroke. He then decides to go on his lawn mower across two states to see him. The movie is all about this journey – based on the true story of Alvin Straight.
It’s a must get and watch many times…

let me know what you think when you watch it.

Joe
PS Рremember watching Cyrano de Bergerac with G̩rard Depardieu??

]]> By: allan http://www.joelafferty.com/2009/09/08/the-power-of-movies/comment-page-1/#comment-9650 allan Tue, 08 Sep 2009 18:19:55 +0000 http://www.joelafferty.com/blog/?p=833#comment-9650 Hi Joe - what's Straight Story all about? Hi Joe – what’s Straight Story all about?

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