Hey there everyone!  I’m very sorry that I haven’t written in a while, I know it’s hard when you don’t hear from me, and I definitley missed you.

The week before last, Sophie and I went to see Get Low.  When I first heard the name of this movie, I thought that maybe it was a long overdue name change to the dance flick Step Up, but no, it turned out to be quite a serious take on a hermit’s last moments in life.

The main character, Felix, has spent the last forty years in a cabin in the woods.  It’s just him and his mule.  But after he goes to visit the gravesite of an old friend, Felix starts to think about his own impending demise.  So he goes into town to buy a funeral.  At the funeral home, he waves a wad of cash around and says that he wants a funeral party, and that he wants to attend…. still alive.

However unconventional his request, the funeral director can’t pass up the promis of a ball fo money, and what follows is a heartbreaking journey, as the reason for this party finally comes out.  Felix has been punishing himself for forty years for a past crime, refusing to ask forgiveness from God or the people that he’s wronged.  It isn’t until the end that we really find out what happened, although it’s sufficiently hinted at.  Felix’s pain is evident, his stubborness is relatable.  At one point, when discussing asking God for forgiveness, he says “I aint done nothing to him.”

What a wonderful commentary on what forgiveness is.  Felix assumes that he’s doing something for God by asking for forgiveness, but, as he discovers, asking for forgiveness is about relief for him.  Forgiveness between man and God is about man’s wellbeing.  God doesn’t need anything from us.

Just a couple of faces that were especially familiar to me: Bill Murray- who I recognize from What About Bob, Groundhog Day and Osmosis Jones- I’m taking you back aren’t I? and Lucas Black who you might recognize from The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, which, in my opinion, suffered sans Vin Diesel.  These are the two that were the most familiar to me, but the entire cast was brilliant.

Bravo Get Low

Jasmine Out

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