Another movie I shouldn't be talking about

Aptly named, I ought to refer to this as my "Rory O'Shea Post" I already did a good rant to Hannah about how disgiusted I was with the language, I am not good at typing since the Nervous System Infection /Brain Biopsy, so, I'll just re post what I had said in my first reaction:


Yesterday
Melissa Babcock Holden

I am so throughly disgusted! I just did something I want to share but it was wrong. I watched a rated R movie that was so good. "Rory O'Shea was here." A real tear jerker. I cannot even mention to my parents that I saw it, but holywood had to go and destroy it with filthy language, without which it would've and should've been a great movie. I only guess why they do that is to teach otherwise ignorant fools precious truths in their own vernacular. Really, I couldn't even let my kids or husband see it because of the swearing, really the subject didn't need it, but they tried to make a point in one place where Rory (James McAvoy) was dictating a letter and the one trying to write it down suggested that he might need to rethink that particular wording, and Rory replied that it was needed to provide the needed punch. I always think of that sort of language is for shock value or needed attention. I think the witers through that character told how they were aware of the language used, and it's inappropriateness and used it anyway! I'm just upset. I want you to see it, but cannot encourage it because of the rating and the rating is due to the language.

Hey! that was so easy, I'll just repost my last thought on that movie here too instead of retyping it all:


about an hour ago
Melissa Babcock Holden

Nick just asked me a question and I let him have it. I compared my recently watched film with Will Smith's "The Persuit of happiness" and explained that through history truly corageous individuals did things that seemed illogical and crazy to others, Nost times, the people themselves wouldn't even reason it out, like Nephi killing a man for the good of others. Nick did say that war is a totally different story. I do not think it is. I used Captain Moroni as that example, anyway after I finished saying my part about people needing divine intervention or they would ot be able to do such things. I looked at him and said, "Now do you see why I like to talk to Hannah? She asks things and I tell her what I'm thinking and she replies!" He thought for a minute then said, "Oh, you communicate?" bingo!
I had been thinking very hard about Rory O'Shea and how he left his nice comfortable residence with nurses, to go take care of himself. I really thought the moral of the story would be that they realized that independance isn't for everyone, but instead they showed that it was worth their life, and all the comforts possible. It taught me a whole lot more, but I bet it was very hard to leave loved ones and care givers behind. I also loved another point where their nurse explains that she is sorry that she does not love them back the way they would like, but you cannot control who you love. hmmmm.. Then, this is a key point, she explained wisely, that what he felt for her wasn't that kind of love either it was gratitude. I wonder how much clearly we could understand things like love if our language was improved. too much heartache is caused by miscommunication!


Some movies just really get to me, this one did. I broke down (which is rare when I'm not pregnant) in tears when the boy with Cerebal Palsy told the Muscular Dystophy dude that "Rory O'Shea was here." pointing as best he could to his heart. I could almost understand him then. Well, not his words, his meaning was loud and clearly gestured.

I can't end on such a sad note, so, I'll tell of another story that isn't really funny, but it's a lighter note, to me. At an one-act-play competition, no it was a theater competition in Mississippi that I went with my teacher to see at The
university of Southern Mississippi. Anyway, this guy's performance was sooooo good, he was portraying a heartattack! The previous year, a girl won for her brilliant job at being an autistic child. Well, there was no question he would have won best actor, if it wasn't real. He died of a heart attack, for real! I know, what are the odds? A real method actor I suppose, wanting to feel the colestorol's effects first hand. *shrug* don't know, but talk about a real slave to his craft. This guy was a true martyr!