Movie break

I needed a break the other night, so I watched a movie. I really should have cleaned the bathroom sink or mucked some more junk off of my desk, but I didn't. I had a movie that has been hanging around for about a month just waiting for me to watch it. So on Saturday night I gave in and indulged. And I am glad I did.

I had never seen this movie. I don't even remember hearing about it. It was released in 2000 and I mostly paid attention to Disney releases back then, so maybe that explains it. I was ordering a book online and saw this movie, it intrigued me so I added it to my cart.

Do you ever think about time travel? And if you do, do you ever think about what you would do if you could go back. Have you ever thought about how that would change so much- not just in your life, but the lives of everyone around you? And if you could know the changes before hand, do you think you would still make them?

From the back of the movie case:

"All his life, police officer John Sullivan has been haunted by one tragic event. When a once-in-a-lifetime phenomenon of nature opens a mysterious channel to the past, John is stunned to discover that he is able to communicate with his dad, Frank.... who's been dead for 30 years. But by changing the past, they set in motion a string of brutal, unsolved murders, with John's mother-and Frank's wife- the next victim. Racing against time, the son and father must now find a way to stop the crime that could destroy the future for both of them."

Here is the original trailor for this movie,

Frequency



A great suspense movie. I think it is going to become one of my new favorites.

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Indeed.

Just follow the script

I was listening to some old music this weekend. There is a line in one of the songs that goes: "If this were a movie, we'd be right on cue. But here in the real world...."

Then later that day, Ethan was watching an episode of Stargate and I needed him to do something. He asked if he could wait until the episode was over. Of course I wanted to know how much longer and he didn't know as it was a DVD instead of on t.v. So I asked him, where are they in the conflict? Has it gotten extremely bad yet? Does it seem that there is no way to resolve it and time is counting down to mere minutes or seconds before doom is sure to happen? Or are we still building to that point? Or are you about to see the last second rescue? His answer told me where in the sequence of events he was as well as about how much longer the show had.

I started thinking about that. If my life were a movie, would I be on cue? Where am I in the sequence of events? Am I hitting my mark more often than hitting miscues? What happens when someone doesn't follow the script? Can I improvise and make it a good show anyway?

It is sometimes hard to step back and look at the scenes objectively. And realisticly, there are no scripts, no looking ahead to see how it all turns out.

There is a major conflict in my life. For me it seems hopeless and I felt helpless to change it. I really needed someone to step in and rescue me. But, just like the song, here in the real world, that doesn't happen. However, after meeting with my bishop about it a couple of weeks ago, I no longer feel that edge of the seat drama, my life can't get any worse, I just want the credits to roll about the whole thing. The conflict has not gone away, it has not been resolved and I still don't know what is going to happen, or when, or anything other than this: it will be alright- eventually. There will be a resolution. And I will get to live happily ever after. Right on cue.