Away we go (kinda) Review
I watched a great movie tonight with my wife. It was a rainy day and cool, which is rare for my area. It felt like those days we used to skip work, before kids, mortgage and 12 hour work days, and lay in our robes on the sofa in her 1930’s upstairs apartment with cold floors and creaky doors. We had a full cabinet of movies, or favorites, that we would watch weekly. In the beginning of our relationship it was very exciting, because I married my collection with hers, and we both explored each others tastes, and always got a kick when we both had the same movie. We wouldn’t even sell the duplicate DVDs.. one was my experience one was hers, and we kind of liked the thought of them hanging out together.
The movie was Away We Go
which not only reminds you of Nick Drake, but brings him up from the dead.
I’ll leave Christian commentary and cuss-word count for those that enjoy that kind of thing, but i will say, that this is a very healthy movie for our generation, that other generations may or may not understand. Our subtle feelings of emptiness, and dark humor by suffering and loss of childhood to the technology and foolish of the selfish generation of our parents. You know that there is something wrong with the world when you watch this, something wrong with the self indulgence of our youth, and the lost opportunities to having the gift of children in the most beautiful time in life. I understood and was moved greatly by the scene in the strip bar in Montreal, which I won’t give away, only to say that I don’t know of any major movie that has been, even if accidentally pro-life and pro-family. this movie seems to be a lamentation of a lost generation, and of a hope found in our very nature.. children and family.
We wait until we are finically secure to consider marriage and kids. We wait to become more mature, have that trip to spain, sew our wild oats. But what we find when the time comes, for many around 30, that we had been looking in the wrong direction all our youth. Following the drum beat of our money hungry parents which leads to emptiness. In the end, Away we go finds that is not for the strong or the weak, the bad or the good, the smart or the wise, children and family are our very nature, what these bodies were meant to do.
Well, we had fun, and kissed a bit afterwards… so I’d say it was a good movie experience for couples, and the new generation who wants to take a look at the car wreck of it’s predecessors. Others will probably get a whole different “thing” from Away we Go… but usually I’m the one that’s right… cause I’m the King of Ez.
This movie gave me great hope, that maybe this next generation will escape the claws of a billion… yes billion dollar corporation called planned parenthood, who thinks they will tell us how to live, and make big rolls of riches off the death and discouragement of God’s greatest blessing children.
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