Sunday, January 23, 2011

Move Monday -- Sickos

Share movies that contain a form of illness as its theme or feature a character who is sick or diseased, linking back here at The Bumbles. And don't forget to visit your fellow participants!

I'm watching Sex and the City as I write this, and if a broken heart counts as an illness, I'd be happy to include it here. But instead I'll be true to the Bumbles' intent and go with more conventionally-
defined diseases.

One True Thin
g. Renee Zellweger plays the successful daughter of author/professor William Hurt and housewife Meryl Streep. She moves back home to care for her cancer-stricken mother and learns some hard truths about the reality of her parents' life together and discovers how strong and resolute her mother really is.

Love Story. The
Orca of the disease-weeper genre. I cried over the book and had this poster on my wall and could not wait to see the movie with my junior high girlfriends.Oliver begins the film by asking, "What can you say about a 25-year-old girl who died?" Therefore everything that follows -- including frolicking in the snow and being carried across the threshold -- is deliciously tinged with impending tragedy. I haven't seen it as a woman and have no interest in doing so. It was so perfect for me when I was 12, I don't want to wreck the memory by discovering it's really not very good.

Pride of the Yankees. Lou Gehrig was the perfect hero -- he respected his parents, was both a loving husband and one of the greatest ballplayers ever, and accepted the cruel fate life handed him with ultimate grace. When he declares himself "the luckiest man on the face of the earth," I bet even those passionate Red Sox fan Bumbles choke up a little.


5 comments:

  1. One True Thing sounds something I will like to see.

    Here's my Movie Choices

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  2. One True Thing is an excellent book and movie!

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  3. Ooooh, good choices! One True Thing was a great Meryl role.

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  4. Oh yes - even us Bumbles can't deny the greatness and bravery of Gehrig.

    I thought perhaps I'd find Brian's Song here today. I got to laugh instead over your categorization of Love Story as the "Orca" of the genre :0)

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  5. Love Story is such a time tunnel trail for me. It brought angst at that age and was such a "beautiful love story"..or so I thought at the time.
    Hmmm...a bit depressing now!

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