12/13
2009

the editing bin #35: “And, so it was, a wristwatch saved Harold Crick.” Kay Eiffel, Stranger than Fiction (2006) (38:49)

The littlest things can change our lives and send shock waves around the world. In them we can experience hope for a new future and reconciliation for the wrongs of the past, even if that past is wrought with supposedly insurmountable divisions as we see in Invictus (2009). Every change starts small, when one man or woman allows his or her own life to be changed and refuses to back down when told “it can't be done”. In many ways every revolution, quiet and frenzied, starts with A Man Called Pearl (2006). But changing your life does not come without a cost. To really change something, you have to be willing to walk the dirty streets in your own life and face what is often not pretty to look at. Sometimes this world-shaking introspection begins with the everyday things like a game of cards and ends with Amazing Grace (2006). However change comes and whatever form it takes, your life will never be the same.

This week we're changing up the format a bit: there is no Critic’s Pick. 

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