Your life as a movie

I do this all the time.
Relating events and emotions...using analogies to movies.

But I think I'm living under an ancient curse,
"May you live in Interesting times..."

Because while it may be "interesting" for the reader or watcher...it's hell to actually live through.

Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Silver Linings Playbook
Real Genius
Good Will Hunting
Forest Gump
and so on...

The stories are magnificent, wondrous, tragic and painful...
And most people I tell them to say they haven't done the same. (and I wonder if they haven't or are they lying or in denial)

Then again, when I went up to Calgary...those guys blew me away, having lived "Ice Road Truckers".
But it's not a competition...it's living life.

Like Forest Gump said, "Life is like a box of chocolates...you never know what you're going to get"

 

Well, while I get your point...noting some movies that connect to you, like "Parenthood" would be what I imagine it would be if I was a parent,
but I believe her primary premise is that much of certain movies are quite like your actual life at times.
Otherwise, I can say I feel like David Lynch's "Dune" ...and I don't think I say I lived life that way as any of the characters, much less the Kwisatz Haderach (The sleeper must awaken...)

For example, the reason I picked "Forrest Gump" is because I've found myself in momentous times and environs at periodic intervals in my life.
Experienced that most can't say they did or have been to...but like Forrest Gump, it just happened, I just lived it...and I went on.

"Ferris Bueller's Day Off" is because while I'm often lonely and frustrated like Cameron, Ferris' BF...at others, I'm on top of the world...and everything is clicking, ultra cool and smooth, like Ferris.

And it doesn't have to be the whole movie, just portions.
But I get what she's saying...what actually relates to what's happened to you in real life.

Funny thing is, I used to drive my wife crazy with these analogies...she'd yell, "Life is not like a movie!"
But...movies are drawn from humans...so maybe in ways, it is.

Not something you aren't yet...but something you've actually experienced in some way.

Crash, within the seemingly disconnected chaos of life, somehow people's lives are connected and affect each other. Chaos Theory in action...I've experienced that.
And while not literally being looped in time, Groundhog's Day connects because you are caught in a figurative loop, Same Shit Different Day...but in the end, you've grown and become more somehow.

 

I'm scared to watch Silver Linings Playbook for fear that it may hit too close to home for me.

Right now I often feel like my life is like a sitcom focused on a group of friends, complete with wacky neighbor. It's a good sitcom, though. Makes me laugh.

 

I understand...I watched it and I felt I've experienced the first portion easily, without being "officially" mentally ill.
You can "go crazy" and lose everything without quite going there formally...and strangely so, it can happen multiple times in life of different levels.

Go watch it, you'll like it...it gives you hope. It's a good "American Style" movie, not with a dark or ambiguous conclusion.

 

Well, that's just it. I do have a diagnosed mental illness. I have gone crazy. I have recovered from it. Watching something like that movie may just hurt too much for me.

 

My life is like Fight Club if it were written and directed by a computer algorithm designed to emulate the combined talents of Woody Allen and Wes Anderson.

 

It would go something like this?

"Punch me in the face."

"Pardon me?"

"I want you to punch me in the face...as hard as you can."

"I don't think my therapist would approve. She says I have deep-seated anger issues that I need to resolve in a safe environment."

"Fuck your therapist! If you aren't already...."

"All right. You just want me to punch you? Like in the face? Really?"

"Yeah."

"Well, okay.... But don't take it personal. Will this hurt?"

 

Right now, I'm living "The Money Pit" subtract the wife (or fiancé in the movie)

I can't write the checks fast enough.

I think I may start maniacally laughing like Tom Hanks after the bathtub falls through the floor...