Thursday
Sep182008
A movie I can't stop thinking about...
Thursday, September 18, 2008 at 05:30PM
I watched this movie on TV one night about a week ago and as is easily observed I have blogged very little but I keep thinking about the power of this movie. I'm sure it might have lots of blue language if you rent it but it's a hard movie to get out of your brain. It's about a retired insurance excecutive who is questioning whether he really lived life. He gets a world vision child and begins to confess to this foriegn 3rd world child some pretty philisophical stuff including lots of self doubt.
There was a man all alone;
he had neither son nor brother.
There was no end to his toil,
yet his eyes were not content with his wealth.
"For whom am I toiling," he asked,
"and why am I depriving myself of enjoyment?"
This too is meaningless—
a miserable business!
Ecclesiastes 4:8-10
Then he receives a letter from his sponsor child... Maybe i'm the last person to see this movie but it was a great declaration of the power of intimacy, meaning, realization, clarity, intention and connection.
he had neither son nor brother.
There was no end to his toil,
yet his eyes were not content with his wealth.
"For whom am I toiling," he asked,
"and why am I depriving myself of enjoyment?"
This too is meaningless—
a miserable business!
Ecclesiastes 4:8-10
Then he receives a letter from his sponsor child... Maybe i'm the last person to see this movie but it was a great declaration of the power of intimacy, meaning, realization, clarity, intention and connection.
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