The night before I wrote this, I watched Reservoir Dogs with my 17-year-old son Callum.
He has dropped in and out of Tarantino movies, but he's never really seen them from start to finish. For one, he's never seen Reservoir Dogs.
This blog is not about Reservoir dogs, but the reference to Reservoir Dogs is the thing when you go back to something magnificent (1992) and realise that it's still magnificent in why.
And so, in the third movie of this little series of the things that I've seen or wanted to recommend, I'm going to go to a Bill Nighy film.
No discussion of film as far as I'm concerned, and the things that I have seen and done and been influenced by would be complete without Bill Nighy (It turns out that he's in The Wild Robot, which I talked about earlier in this little series).
The film I want to introduce you to, though, is Living. You may have seen this, but you may not.
There was plenty of low down on the radar.
It was my choice for cinema club (because he was in it) and so off, we trotted to see a film which was effectively a remake of a 1950s Japanese story about a guy who suddenly realises that he spent his whole life not living and then what it would be to contribute before the end.
It looks magnificent and beautiful, and it's an extraordinary story, and his part in it is amazing.
It will stay with you this film like it stayed with me.
The end scene with the police officer is beautiful; it touches you so deeply, and you'll think to yourself, what am I doing and where am I going and why?
That is what beautiful creation does, isn't it beautiful books, music, films, art, opera? Depending upon who you are, that's what you seek to find.
Living is a wonderful gift.
Find it on Apple TV, Amazon or wherever you find your films, but watch it with someone you care about.
It's marvellous.
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