Defending Your Life
For the first time in several years, I just watched one of my all time favorite films "Defending Your Life" by Albert Brooks. Brooks makes a film every few years, when he feels like it, and none of them have been smash commercial hits.
If, however, you enjoy funny, personal, and meaningful commentary on life and how to use it well, rent this movie! Brooks, along with the extraordinary supporting cast of Meryl Streep, Rip Torn, and Lee Grant take you on a trip to "Judgement City" where the freshly dead review their life and are either sent on to a higher state of being or sent back to earth to try again.
The nexus or focus is how well one confronted his or her fears while alive. And if done sufficiently well, then you move up. If not, then you get another chance. Some of the people in Judgement City have had 20 or more tries at it. Eventually, if you just can't seem to face life and liberate yourself from fear, you are thrown away.
This is a great and an extremely funny film, with an ending that would move the crustiest cynic among us. Along with "Mother" and "Lost In America" this is among the best films in recent years. And "Defending..." is a classic that will generate laughs and tears from generations not yet born.
Albert Brooks is one of the GREAT filmmakers of all time. Rent this or almost any other of his work.
Joe Postove
If, however, you enjoy funny, personal, and meaningful commentary on life and how to use it well, rent this movie! Brooks, along with the extraordinary supporting cast of Meryl Streep, Rip Torn, and Lee Grant take you on a trip to "Judgement City" where the freshly dead review their life and are either sent on to a higher state of being or sent back to earth to try again.
The nexus or focus is how well one confronted his or her fears while alive. And if done sufficiently well, then you move up. If not, then you get another chance. Some of the people in Judgement City have had 20 or more tries at it. Eventually, if you just can't seem to face life and liberate yourself from fear, you are thrown away.
This is a great and an extremely funny film, with an ending that would move the crustiest cynic among us. Along with "Mother" and "Lost In America" this is among the best films in recent years. And "Defending..." is a classic that will generate laughs and tears from generations not yet born.
Albert Brooks is one of the GREAT filmmakers of all time. Rent this or almost any other of his work.
Joe Postove
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