I finally got to see Reel Paradise tonight on this rainy and cold Northern California coast. We are all so sick of the rain yet once this film began it took me away and back to some of the best years of my life (and I have had so many and will have more!). It immediately had me howling with laughter, crying with homesickness and angry at the injustices faced by both the Fijian and the kaivulagi's who dared to run a movie theater in Fiji for free. I applaud that kind of courage, strength, insanity and bravado . . . in short, my kind of people. I even sent them an email, a crazy thing to do here in America, to people who you may never meet but I don't care. After a shared Fiji experience they will (I hope) understand my crazy offer to put them up in my house no matter what or when or where. They will understand because after Fiji, that is just the way it is (and should be).
Wow! Listen to me go on.
But here it is folks - do you dare to dream? Have you lived your life to the fullest and taken risk that you ache to do in your heart of hearts? Can you look at your life without major regrets or after examining your life regret that you did not live it the way you wished? Did you do something that matter? That you care about?
That is what Fiji was to me as a Peace Corps volunteer. I will never have to wonder about those questions when I am 90 years old. I'll know that I did something with great meaning, that mattered (at least to me and some Fijian friends). I could only hope that others can do the same.
After viewing this film I believe that the Pierson family had such an experience but what is more I believe that if you watch this film it will encourage you to pursue a dream or 'wild idea' that you have always wanted.
To me, this is what movie making is all about, educating, entertaining, showing people the differences in the world and making us wonder about what life is, is not, could be, what was and what will be. I may wax too poetic but however I may babble on . . .
See this movie!
It will touch you if you have an open heart. I'd work for this crazy man anytime to make films that matter.
Hoping you can live that life you need and want . . . .
David
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It was wonderful to see Veronica back in the loop and still curious enough about my mad writings (mad in the crazy sense of course!) to come back. Thank you Veronica! Let me know what you think of Reel Paradise if you get to see it!
My visitor from Edinburgh is interesting, would love to email hime but he too remains anonymous. Edinburgh is famed for it's theatre 'fringe' fesitival among many other things and I'd love to live and work there for at least a year. I will address some of his thoughts later though, too late, too rainy, too cold. I head up to my family's ranch on the morrow for walks, rainy mountain bike rides and I hope a few hot fires. All the best to you Mz. V.
Thanks for the note.
D.
It was wonderful to see Veronica back in the loop and still curious enough about my mad writings (mad in the crazy sense of course!) to come back. Thank you Veronica! Let me know what you think of Reel Paradise if you get to see it!
My visitor from Edinburgh is interesting, would love to email hime but he too remains anonymous. Edinburgh is famed for it's theatre 'fringe' fesitival among many other things and I'd love to live and work there for at least a year. I will address some of his thoughts later though, too late, too rainy, too cold. I head up to my family's ranch on the morrow for walks, rainy mountain bike rides and I hope a few hot fires. All the best to you Mz. V.
Thanks for the note.
D.
Howdy! It does not look like Reel Paradise is here in NM yet. I come from CA, and know NM is a little behind (a few months or so). I tried to email you again, so check your junk mail for a Testing, Testing! greeting.
Send some of that rain over to NM Stat!
Hope you enjoyed your visit to family's homestead, it sounded like a perfect opportunity to clear away the chaos we tend to think is normal.
Best Regards,
Veronica
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