Week 1 - Splurging
This week I watched 1 movie --
"We should watch the Greatest Showman," said my husband. To be honest, we never watch movies or tv so I was actually surprised. Normally my media intake is music or the general conference talks (or podcasts), and we just don't like sitting down for too long and watching things.
It turns out it was pretty nice to watch our first movie together in months!
Some thoughts:
I was surprised by how powerful it was at making me feel. During the movie I went from from sad to amazed, to happy when they got married to really upset when Jenny was trying to pull moves on Mr. Barnum, to inspired and committed during "From Now On" -- which I had stuck in my head all next day, motivating me to be better ...
It was very interactive of storytelling and it pulled me all the way in.
It was interactive in the way that watching a movie felt like living a life. And afterward, I had almost the feeling of a life well lived and learned from.
A huge power force in this movie was the music. I already cry in almost every movie anyways, so I get emotionally attached to stories pretty quickly. But, the music from the Greatest Showman is so passionate and really tells the story, and while watching that movie it felt like the stories really meant something, That's a beautiful thing to me, and the words in most of the songs were so inspiring and beautiful, and really I just love it.
I enjoyed that this movie and it's music and story made me feel deeply, that it prompted feelings of all kinds and then, resolution. I mostly enjoyed how I felt afterwards -- satisfied and inspired.
"From now on these eyes will not be blinded by the light.
From now on what's waited 'til tomorrow starts tonight...
let this promise in me start,
like an anthem in my heart,
from now on -- from now on!"
Still stuck in my head, almost a week later. It set a tone and soundtrack for the rest of the week, and that's been a happy thing.
It's good content that I don't mind having stuck in my head; I really appreciate that.
Oh, thank you for sharing this experience! When I watched The Greatest Showman in theaters, I really didn't like it. I thought it was trying to be too many things, as evidenced by your comment about feeling a lot of different things. I think I need to give it another chance. I think I look at media - especially popular movies - really cynically and like to critique them, but I think it would do me good to look for the positive in movies like that. Thank you for sharing your perspective and helping me see that there is good in media that is made to be mainstream.
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