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Comment by Matthew Kahler on September 8, 2011 at 11:34am

I know. I responded to Helen. I will rewrite when i have found the water key and have doused the flower boxes adorning the window, or would that be other way round?

Comment by wiffledust on September 8, 2011 at 11:27am

your review of "the help" is here, matthew. and then the comment saying you'll be back is here. but there isn't another one .....

Comment by Matthew Kahler on September 8, 2011 at 11:25am

I made a comment here. can't see it. I'll be back when i find it

Comment by Helen on September 8, 2011 at 10:12am

Wow, Matthew. Thanks for sharing your thoughts. I love that your 'review' really resounds with the human experience of movies and art in general. It touches on one my favourite topics, that things and people only take on the meaning that we bring to it. And, the viewer is just as important as the art work itself in the experience, and in creating the meaning that is produced from their meeting.

Also, now I really want to go see that movie! :)

Comment by wiffledust on September 8, 2011 at 12:20am

the trailer for "The Help"

Comment by Maggie Friend on September 7, 2011 at 11:40pm

Well dang, Matthew!  I guess I'm gonna have to see this one!

Comment by wiffledust on September 7, 2011 at 7:12pm

what a wonderful review, matthew! the people who made the movie should see what you said, because although i haven't seen it at all, i think your comments are the highest things anyone can say about ANY story! now i have to go see it....thanks so much for this!

Comment by Matthew Kahler on September 7, 2011 at 7:05pm

it is amazing how many things a person can do, or at least attempt to do without having any real qualification. some examples: a writer of songs(actually, any kinda writer), and...,well..., hell, just take my word for it. I am giving up so fast because I am lazy and I don't wanna think anymore, and cause it's writing about something that is the reason I brought it up in the first place.

OK, so I am going to share a thought or two about the.. 'movie', 'the help'. I liked it. more than I thought I would. I was skeptical because you don't know going into a movie that addresses race, whether or not them that wrote/made it, are going to know what they are doing. this is not to suggest that i would know how, just to suggest that there are things to know. so, going in, I was wondering. turns out, I didn't need to wonder. the thoughtful people responsible for the film already know how to share an incredible story. was it perfect? what is? exactly! but did they get it right? in my unqualified opinion, they did. am I purposely not really saying anything here? in a way, yes. partly cause I don't want to give away a single thing, and partly cause I can't. I can't know what you are bringing to it. can't know your experience, your expectation. all I really care to say is I liked it. I liked that characters developed before my eyes. I enjoyed being nervous, embarrassed, tearful, hopeful, broken hearted, outraged, enraged, soothed, and forgiven. I liked being in the theatre with my mother and sisters. I liked being there with everybody. I liked going to a good movie. a movie where something wrong meets head on with something strong. and the strong absorbs the pain and fear and disinformation and rumor and misunderstanding and impatience and ignorance, of the wrong. sucks it all right in. no problem making room for all that. strong says: gimme all you got! cause strong wants to taste it, cause strong can take it. strong coined the phrase: 'strong stomach'. strong is: 'strong constitution, 'strong will', "STRONG OF FAITH".
no thing can end Love. Love does not come undone. you cannot unexsist something that even the most denied of us still have access to.

mk

Comment by Maryrose Orlans on August 21, 2011 at 11:37pm

@ Elle--thanks for the info!  I loved his 'band' of merry men!!  Really enjoyed the film :-)

Comment by Elle MacNeil on August 21, 2011 at 10:10pm

@ Mary Rose - I loved that in Scott's version, one of the members of Robin's "merry men"  is the member of one of our favorite bands!  (Another being played by one of my favorite ER actors, Scott Grimes).  Alan Doyle, of the band Great Big Sea, played Allan A'Dayle! 

 

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