Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close – and my emotions

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Today’s Blog Post
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close – and my emotions

I had read nothing about the movie “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close”, before going to see it. Last night was that kind of night. We indulged ourselves on our Date Night together by going to see this powerful movie.

I had noticed that it was one of the movies chosen for Best Film of the year for the Oscar presentations. I had seen the huge posters downtown on the movie theatre walls.

Its title alone kept me guessing as to what the film was about. Was it a horror film? Was it a violence filled film? Was it a sex kind of film with smut woven throughout? Were dirty words sprinkled like candy through the movie? How about a comedy or action filled film with blowing up bombs and impossible action that no human body could ever survive?

Nope – it wasn’t any of these.

Imagine a film without horror, violence, sex, smut, dirty words, comedy, action, bombs, or impossible action… getting a Oscar Nomination. Impossible! It cannot be!

In fact there were no musical scores or background streams of music that plays along as you are whisked from place to place – the way old cowboy movies used to.

And if I would have read the “critic’s” evaluation that was so very low in some cases I would have either dropped the idea of spending any money on this show – or I would have run there to see what kind of idiots they really are.

BTW – most film critics have no idea what I like or don’t like in a movie. Most that say it is good are out to lunch and the other movies they hate – I love. Most movies critics are a jaded, over paid, over ego tripped, Dodo types, that haven’t got a clue what ordinary people like.

How do I describe what happened to me in this movie? Where do I find words to let me tell someone that they should see it for themselves and then think about what they saw and felt?

The movie theatre last night was almost silent throughout the show. No one that I saw left the theatre for a bathroom break. No one moved anywhere throughout the viewing. And then at the end, which did leave me hanging, there was applause from my fellow movie attendees. All around us people were clapping for the film… and then they hardly moved as the credits slowly came on the screen.

The impact of what we had just viewed was settling in slowly. And as we walked out very few people were saying anything to each other. They were all too stunned to open their mouths.

I turned to my wife and said simply, “Wow…” in a hushed voice.

Last week when we watched “Mission Impossible” – I never felt that at all. There was so much and were so many explosions, humanly impossible things happening with the entire filmed jammed full of stuff… you were saying “Wow!” all the time, and at the end you simply needed a fast trip to the washroom. You couldn’t believe a thing you had just seen.

Last night we were all sorting through the huge emotions that we had just experienced.

The young boy “Thomas Horn” that played his part in the movie was simply amazing. The way that he played the part gave me the feeling of the 2001 movie entitled, “A Beautiful Mind”, where the brilliant mathematician acts out his inner driven thoughts and shows everyone a world that doesn’t exist. That was another “Wow…” moment at that movie as well.

I have dealt with youth that are Asperger Syndrome type kids. To see it portrayed the way it was by Oskar Schell (Thomas Horn) was amazing. The troubled mind that an Asperger Syndrome kid or adult has is not easy to understand… and can be destructive in many cases when the parents want normal.

Last night however I was able to see the kids that I have dealt with in the past, in a whole different light.

Add to that the movie is about the 9/11 disaster and the day that it all happened. As I watched again all the clips and the horrible things that happened again, I relived that day again. I realized last night that I am not over the happening of 9/11 and likely will never be.

Oscar Schell, the movie’s central figure, lost his dad that day. The fact that his dad called him over and over again leaving messages just before he is about to die, is a powerful part that I have yet to deal with. This happened over and over again to many thousands of real people that called that day to their loved ones at home or in offices across that area… that part of the movie was just too real… shockingly real.

Movie critics can’t take the real life stuff. They need all that other crapola to stimulate their senses.

Now do I sound like I enjoyed the movie? Enjoyed is not the best word to use. Was I deeply moved by it? Yes is the best answer but it must be given an emphatic YES!

Real life and ideas that portray real life does that to me.

And I recommend this one to you – highly – if you are a normal person that is inspired by real people’s stories.

~ Murray Lincoln ~
http://www.murraylincoln.com/

Resource:
http://extremelyloudandincrediblyclose.warnerbros.com/index.html#/home
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extremely_Loud_and_Incredibly_Close
http://www.kansan.com/news/2012/jan/31/movie-review/
http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2012/01/examining-extremely-loud-and-incredibly-closes-osc.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/oscars/9038299/Oscars-2012-Extremely-Loud-and-Incredibly-Close-gets-an-unlikely-Oscar-nomination.html

A Beautiful Mind
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0268978/