Movie recommendation: about a boy
This will contain a spoiler, so do not read to the end if you don’t want to hear a part of the end of the movie which will not spoil the movie, but might.
Recommendation: about a boy. Hugh Grant. A kid whose name I do not know. A movie I haven’t watched in 20+ years.
Another movie that means something totally different to me at this stage of my life than it did the first time I watched it.
A genuinely good movie. Great plot development. Great character development. Things I noticed this time around that I know I did not notice 20 years ago.
But the most beautiful part of the movie at the end, nothing to do with the plot twist, just a deep thought: the main character who lived a hedonist life as though he were an island.
Comes to the revelation that though some men might think they are islands, they are in fact unknowingly part of island chains - superficially independent on the surface, but interconnected beneath the sea.
A beautiful analogy that I totally did not appreciate decades ago.