Meet Joe Black
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Currently listening To: To You - Darlene Zschech
Now isn't this just absolutely annoying. Its been so many times since I tried to upload my 2nd podcast but podbean.com is just such a vein popper. I have even re-saved it and re-converted it but that didn't do the trick either. Let this be the last time I try uploading it, for if all else fail I shall attempt to re-record it.
I watched a rather old show on HBO yesterday night - Meet Joe Black. Yes I know very well that time is of the essence right now and that I should be focusing on finishing my CCP, but surely one deserved a break once in a while. Well anyway it was a good long show, one which spanned 3 hoursand in it's defense I would say very thought provoking as well.
The 1998 movie was about a media tycoon Bill Parrish (played by Anthony Hopkins) who was visited by the Inevitable, telling him of his time coming to an end. He then meets Death soon after who strikes him a deal, that his time on earth would be prolonged for a little while longer should Bill take him on a tour of life. Death is like a child to the world as he has never been part of it before, and things turns complicated when he finds himself falling hard for Bill's daughter, Susan.
There was a line in the movie that I loved so much. Said by Joe Black, in a very Jamaican accent too, when he went to visit a dying old Jamaican woman in the hospital. Joe was reluctant to take her to the other world as he was 'on vacation' while she was insistent on passing on to ease her sufferings.
Joe Black: I can't believe you people. I come for you, and you want to stay, I let you stay and you want to go
I broke into such laughter that I almost needed stitches afterward. How absolutely adorable.
A bonus to the movie is that Death, or known as Joe Black was played by a very boyish looking Brad Pitt. But as much as I would love it to be, he's not the reason for this particular post. Haha.
It was after the movie that made me go thinking, something I do best as I always have the tendency to let my thoughts wonder. The movie was one that was emotionally heartwarming, inspiring and thought provoking, not to mention tear jerking in certain scenes. Then I thought, you know, wow. Just wow. How it takes a movie, a fictional movie on HBO to remind us about the remarkable little things in life.
To remind us life is a celebration, that love is what matters most, that we are alive and living. How ironic it is, that we have to sit indoors facing an idiot box to be told these kind of things through a creation of fiction.
See where this is getting at?
Currently listening To: To You - Darlene Zschech
Now isn't this just absolutely annoying. Its been so many times since I tried to upload my 2nd podcast but podbean.com is just such a vein popper. I have even re-saved it and re-converted it but that didn't do the trick either. Let this be the last time I try uploading it, for if all else fail I shall attempt to re-record it.
I watched a rather old show on HBO yesterday night - Meet Joe Black. Yes I know very well that time is of the essence right now and that I should be focusing on finishing my CCP, but surely one deserved a break once in a while. Well anyway it was a good long show, one which spanned 3 hoursand in it's defense I would say very thought provoking as well.
The 1998 movie was about a media tycoon Bill Parrish (played by Anthony Hopkins) who was visited by the Inevitable, telling him of his time coming to an end. He then meets Death soon after who strikes him a deal, that his time on earth would be prolonged for a little while longer should Bill take him on a tour of life. Death is like a child to the world as he has never been part of it before, and things turns complicated when he finds himself falling hard for Bill's daughter, Susan.
There was a line in the movie that I loved so much. Said by Joe Black, in a very Jamaican accent too, when he went to visit a dying old Jamaican woman in the hospital. Joe was reluctant to take her to the other world as he was 'on vacation' while she was insistent on passing on to ease her sufferings.
Joe Black: I can't believe you people. I come for you, and you want to stay, I let you stay and you want to go
I broke into such laughter that I almost needed stitches afterward. How absolutely adorable.
A bonus to the movie is that Death, or known as Joe Black was played by a very boyish looking Brad Pitt. But as much as I would love it to be, he's not the reason for this particular post. Haha.
It was after the movie that made me go thinking, something I do best as I always have the tendency to let my thoughts wonder. The movie was one that was emotionally heartwarming, inspiring and thought provoking, not to mention tear jerking in certain scenes. Then I thought, you know, wow. Just wow. How it takes a movie, a fictional movie on HBO to remind us about the remarkable little things in life.
To remind us life is a celebration, that love is what matters most, that we are alive and living. How ironic it is, that we have to sit indoors facing an idiot box to be told these kind of things through a creation of fiction.
See where this is getting at?
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