"This movie changed my life"

[Barefoot Bree]

Is there a movie, or a TV show, or a book, or a song, that literally and fundamentally changed your life?

There were two movies that changed my life, that I saw at about the same time (but some time after each of them came out). I was increasingly unhappy in my former marriage, getting less and less enchanted with my husband, when I happened to watch the DVD's for Regarding Henry and American Beauty within a few days of each other.

Regarding Henry brought home how much people change, and how people can fall in and out of love. Henry, a high-powered, self-centered, and rather nasty lawyer, was shot in the head. He survived, but recovery took months, and his personality was changed fundamentally. In many ways he lost all the veneer and reverted to the kind, funny kid he had been before.

And I looked at my then-husband and saw the Lawyer. And I had to wonder, if he was shot in the head, would he wake up looking like Harrison Ford?

Just kidding.

But I did realize it would take something as drastic as that to change him into someone I liked again. Forget love, that had dribbled away a long time back. I didn't like him any more.

Then I saw American Beauty, and was deeply struck by the ways Lester and Carolyn, especially Lester, went about recognizing that his life was meaningless in so many ways, and tried to recapture some meaning, some satisfaction.

And that gave me the push to make changes in my own life. I moved out, got a divorce. I have to remind myself every once in a while about those times, those decisions, and keep trying to find meaning and satisfaction. I have good days and bad, in that regard. Mostly I'm too lazy to really work at it. I think I need to dig that DVD out again.

*******

What about you?

[Christina]

Most recently it's been "A Beautiful Mind", "King of Hearts" and "Harold and Maude" for all of the obvious reasons. The first one is hard for me to find words for and it makes me feel happy, in awe and crushingly sad at the same time. I love the second two because you just have to laugh at this stuff sometimes and there's so little out there about mental illness that isn't one-dimensionally tragic, depressing, insulting or ludicrously ridiculous.

[Barefoot Bree]

But did they change your life? Or perhaps more correctly, inspire you to change your life?

[Christina]

No, I guess not. I've never watched movies all that much so none has ever changed my life or inspired me to do it. They just changed how I feel about my life.

[dug_down_deep]

I can't point at any one book or movie that resulted in some drastically life-changing action being taken, but there were two books that profoundly changed the way I looked at life. One was Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig, and the other was Godel, Escher, Bach: The Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hofstadter.

[purple_kathryn]

No, but then I'm not really into the heartfelt/heartwrenching type of movies or books

[halii]

The Three Little Pigs starring Billy Crystal and Jeff Goldblum changed my life completely. First, I learned that men wearing fur coats are pretty awesome. and second, I learned that it's okay to be gay.

[JamesBannon]

My bullshit meter just blew up!

Can't say I've seen a movie / read a book that changed my life, though there have been movies that moved me in various ways - made me laugh, cry, cringe & what have you. I'm a big fan of Hammer House of Horror "B" movies for some reason.

[halii]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcyrJbcHfbY

god this movie is inspiring.

why can't really funny or really cute movies change your life? they don't all have to be deep and serious. sometimes things just resignate with you. i will admit The Chamber probably changed my life, with all it's corny formulaic john gishamy goodness, because was a little kid and it reached me.

[Master Taran]

My bullshit meter just blew up!Here James. Just for you. :D

http://www.dvorak.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/bullshit_detector.gif

[JamesBannon]

Thanks, MT :D

[Master Taran]

You're welcome JB. ;)

[JamesBannon]

Oh, writing. My favourtie fictional author is Edger Allan Poe and my favourite poem is The Raven.

[David B]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcyrJbcHfbY

god this movie is inspiring.

why can't really funny or really cute movies change your life? they don't all have to be deep and serious. sometimes things just resignate with you. i will admit The Chamber probably changed my life, with all it's corny formulaic john gishamy goodness, because was a little kid and it reached me.

Resignate?

Resonate?

David

[Free in Freeport]

As an adult, I watched a movie that was actually geared towards the 10-14 age group. I don't even remember the title, but it's themes of being true to oneself helped prevent me from going down a very bad road.

[Christina]

I didn't read the OP closely enough and thought it was just about movies. There have been loads of books that changed my views but only one offhand that I can think of that changed my outlook on life dramatically and quickly. I can't even remember the name of it or the author. It was some lightweight new-agey best seller about a guy that didn't want to be a messiah and it was mostly pop philosophy. One thing grabbed me hard though, and it was a general message that (all other things being equal) the difference between a person who gets the life that they want and a person who just dreams about it is that one of them gets off their ass and does it. It's so obviously simple, but it ended any sense of an external locus of control that I might have had.

I think the guy also wrote a book about a seagull. It was at least 30 years ago and hard to remember.

[epepke]

The multimedia presentation at the Singer Sewing Machine exhibit at the 1964-1965 World's Fair showed me what to do in my professional life, in an oblique way.

[Barefoot Bree]

I didn't read the OP closely enough and thought it was just about movies. There have been loads of books that changed my views but only one offhand that I can think of that changed my outlook on life dramatically and quickly. I can't even remember the name of it or the author. It was some lightweight new-agey best seller about a guy that didn't want to be a messiah and it was mostly pop philosophy. One thing grabbed me hard though, and it was a general message that (all other things being equal) the difference between a person who gets the life that they want and a person who just dreams about it is that one of them gets off their ass and does it. It's so obviously simple, but it ended any sense of an external locus of control that I might have had.

I think the guy also wrote a book about a seagull. It was at least 30 years ago and hard to remember.
Richard Bach: Jonathan Livingston Seagull. Which would make the other book Illusions: the Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah.

Damn, I'm good. :cool:

Did you ever listen to Neil Diamond's soundtrack to the JLS movie? I loved that album.

[Christina]

That was it - you are good : ).

I never read JLS, saw the movie or heard the soundtrack as far as I know. Someone had Illusions on a bus that I was living on when I was on Dead tour and I read it and several dozen other books like it but I never read any of his other books. I liked some of those little quotes sprinkled through it in italics and the ideas stuck with me. One of them was something about how the best way to avoid taking responsibility is to have too many responsibilities. It made no sense to me at all until I started doing activist work and most people had plenty of time to talk about social problems but claimed to be far too busy to actually do anything about them. Then I got it.

[LoneWolf]

Good thread idea.

I am really racking my brain to think of a movie that changed my life. There are movies that blew me away and that I think about quite often but I wouldn't say they changed my life.

Books on the other hand, I can think of a few.

1. The Bible - Say what you want, but that archaic collection of documents had a huge impact on my life, and usually not for the good.

2. Demon Haunted World, by Carl Sagan - The first book on skepticism that I ever read and it is still my favorite. When trying to navigate through the ocean of credulity and pseudo-science out there I often think back to the lessons I learned from that book.

3. Getting Things Done, by David Allen - A book about implementing a system that will better allow you to keep your life organized. It has helped me immeasurably.

[Puck]

I found Illusions to be helpful when I read, it, too. I keep a copy even today.

I don't think any one thing changed my life, but the complied books and a few movies helped me learn to calm down and take life as it comes.

[4321lynx]

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[JamesBannon]

I forgot to add, my favourite philosopher is Hume (naturally enough, being a Scot). That in spite of that fact that he sided with the Tories, had a rather low opinion of the intellectual prowess of women (a rather common refrain in those days), and was just a touch racist.

[Jobar]

I didn't read the OP closely enough and thought it was just about movies. There have been loads of books that changed my views but only one offhand that I can think of that changed my outlook on life dramatically and quickly. I can't even remember the name of it or the author. It was some lightweight new-agey best seller about a guy that didn't want to be a messiah and it was mostly pop philosophy. One thing grabbed me hard though, and it was a general message that (all other things being equal) the difference between a person who gets the life that they want and a person who just dreams about it is that one of them gets off their ass and does it. It's so obviously simple, but it ended any sense of an external locus of control that I might have had.

I think the guy also wrote a book about a seagull. It was at least 30 years ago and hard to remember.
Richard Bach: Jonathan Livingston Seagull. Which would make the other book Illusions: the Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah.

Damn, I'm good. :cool:

Did you ever listen to Neil Diamond's soundtrack to the JLS movie? I loved that album.

I have both those books, and I used to have the JLS soundtrack on a cassette tape, but that tape has long since bitten the dust.

I can't think of any movie I found life-changing, but when I first heard the music of Yes back in the seventies, that had a huge influence on me.

[dug_down_deep]

The multimedia presentation at the Singer Sewing Machine exhibit at the 1964-1965 World's Fair showed me what to do in my professional life, in an oblique way.
Dude. You've got to elaborate on that. Sounds fascinating.

[Christina]

but when I first heard the music of Yes back in the seventies, that had a huge influence on me.

Yes was the very first band that I saw in a huge arena but we were right up front. I was about 12 or 13 and my sister's boyfriend took me because she had no taste in music other than the top 40 of the moment. I already smoked pot but it was also the most stoned that I had ever been in my life. I still remember being blown away by Rick Wakeman and that mountain of keyboards. I have go dig some of that up. It's all on old albums and tapes that I can't play but there must be some good stuff online.

ETA: There's lots on YouTube

[sohy]

I can't think of the author's names, but the two books that entirely changed the way I regarded my profession are: Nurse Abuse, and Hospitals, Paternalism and the Role of the Nurse. After reading these books, I developed a much greater appreciation for my fellow nurses and a lot more professional pride when it came to performing my work. I made it a point to always go out of my way to show respect toward my colleagues, and to never allow myself to become involved in the petty bullying and games so common in my profession.

I wish I had read the books earlier in my career. They certainly gave me a new perspective.

[DMB]

Up till the age of 15 I had read children's books, plus rather trivial fiction that my mother happened to have, and at school had studied some Shakespeare, various poets and Jane Austen and Dickens. The school stuff was a chore. I didn't mind doing it, but I wouldn't have chosen to do it.

Then when I was 15 I was shunted into doing A-level English literature, which included Chaucer, Malory, Spenser, lots of Shakespeare, the metaphysical poets, the romantic poets and some novelists. I don't know if it was the way it was taught or the fact that my adolescent brain made a jump to a new maturity, but it was as if someone had given me the key to a previously locked door. I became wildly enthusiastic and on top of my A-level syllabus set myself the task of reading masses of classic English literature that was omitted from the syllabus. At that point in my life I became an autodidact and never quite gave it up.

I can't say it was one particular book, but it was an opening of my eyes to books.

[Notta]

A movie? No.

Books, now, that's an entirely different topic!


The bible - because trying to study it and figure out more about it led directly to my deconversion.
The Oxford English dictionary -- gave me a life-long love of words and the evolution of words.
Lord of the Rings -- every time I read it, I find something I overlooked or see with new eyes based on my life experiences. I never tire of it. I must have read it over 25 times so far, beginning back when I was barely into my teens.

[dug_down_deep]

DMB reminds me of a book I read as a teenager that opened my eyes to the possibilities of narrative artistry: Slapstick by Kurt Vonnegut. Up until I saw that intriguing cover with the clown makeup on the paperback shelf at the Kroger grocery store, I was a genre reader - mainly just science fiction. Mainstream to me meant endless bore-fests about people doing the boring routines of life, centered around boring romantic situations. But I have always been an experimenter too, so I had decided to try some mainstream fiction to see if I had been missing anything.

Boy had I. And boy was I lucky to find Vonnegut when I went looking. Hi ho. :)

[Anne]

I've been thinking about this, and there are none.

but music. Hell yeah.

we learned more from a three minute record baby than we ever learned in school

I learned that sex is good, you don't have to drink to be cool, you can dance by yourself, that youth means something, not to rush life, not to trust people, to take chances, to be true to yourself...

and more...

yeah, pop music of the 80's shaped me.

[dug_down_deep]

I learned to do the Safety Dance from 80's pop music, so I see where you're coming from... :P

[Anne]

your friends don't dance and if they don't dance well they're no friends of mine...

[Matty]

Big Wednesday is hugely emotive for me in a number of ways, although it was some years later we had a similar lifestyle in some ways, not entirely coincidentally, and that films rites of passage etc always seemed significant to us as a gang.

Southern Comfort changed my life in a different way, as well as being one of the more brutal films i watched at an early teen age and therefore an eye opener in that manner, i remember asking dad about the moody theme music and who it was.

"That son, is bottleneck guitar, bluesy music played with a slide and from the Southern states round where this film is set. The bloke playing it is Ry Cooder, he's well good, i'll pick you some up "

and the rest........:)

[frazier]

"That son, is bottleneck guitar, bluesy music played with a slide and from the Southern states round where this film is set. The bloke playing it is Ry Cooder, he's well good, i'll pick you some up "

Wow - now why couldn't I have had a father son conversation like that!

[Christina]

Mine was more like "That daughter, is a man with a motorcycle and a guitar. If I catch you near someone with either one I'll lock you in your room until you turn 21." Good thing I never listened to my mother or I would have missed out on most of the fun that I had from age 14 until I moved out.

[Anne]

and itt we prove Matty's love of music is genetic.

[Pope John Pol Pot II]

This is going to sound extremely vapid, but the 1981 movie "Heavy Metal" changed my life. Until that time I was sort of a tall, thin, palid, and extremly socially insecure young man. Never had any dates, since I was way too shy and self-conscious to talk to women. And despite what teen movies and television say on the topic, shy young men do not get the girls at the end of the movie in real life.

In the movie (which is of course a cartoon based on Heavy Metal Magazine), a real dweeby guy somehow finds a magic ball, which instantly turns him into a super-stud, bulging with muscle! He becomes a sort of Viking King, with a huge ripped body, barely covered by a loin cloth. Not surprisingly, after a few scenes he is rolling around with a beautiful Amazon chick, of the sort of proportion that only Heavy Metal Magazine could depict an Amozon chick

Yet he still has his dweeby thoughts and his internal dweeby voice, and as he makes passionate love to the Amazon queen he thinks to himself (in his dweeby internal voice) "Jeepers! This new body sure feels good!". I then knew what I had to do- train my body to be heroic. Frankly, I wanted a shot at an Amazon Queen.....or, barring that, maybe enough confidence to have a relationship with a woman.

After the movie, I immediately joined a gym and went severall hours. The training paid off in conditioning, confidence, and in actual dates. Over the years I found more thoughtful reasons to train (and I train very hard indeed) than the desire to have passionate sex with an Amazon woman. Now I train hard for other (and better) reasons.

But there is no doubt that the movie made a major impression on my undeveloped young mind, and did indeed change my life!

[Jobar]

That's amusing, but pretty cool. :)

I was a big fan of Heavy Metal, and still have a copy of the very first issue in excellent condition. (Which, BTW, contains the very first installment of 'Den'.) I spent an inordinate amount of money for a bootleg copy of the movie on VHS, too.

I have a good friend who went to see the original 'Star Wars' more than 20 times in theaters! Though he was affected differently than you were, he learned to appreciate science fiction that way, which changed his life quite a lot.

[Shake]

I can't point at any one book or movie that resulted in some drastically life-changing action being taken, but there were two books that profoundly changed the way I looked at life. One was Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig, and the other was Godel, Escher, Bach: The Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hofstadter.

GEB was a really good book. But as someone else mentioned, I got more out of Sagan's Demon-Haunted World. Russell's Why I Am Not a Christian also moved me, but not as much as Smith's Atheism: The Case Against God.

[Matty]

"That son, is bottleneck guitar, bluesy music played with a slide and from the Southern states round where this film is set. The bloke playing it is Ry Cooder, he's well good, i'll pick you some up "

Wow - now why couldn't I have had a father son conversation like that!
Yeah, he and my uncle are my personal music gurus and we've always been more buddies than anything else. I stretched it a bit when i got into Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground tbh, he wasnt too chuffed about that withe the druggy connotations (which was unusual for him, he didnt often make tenuous links like that) though he still came back from a work trip with a copy of Lou's Berlin, bought in Berlin, and with a Berlin price tag. Which was extra extra awesome.

The only music we have no common ground on at all is Radiohead. I think they are possibly the most phenomenal band of my generation and dad doesnt get them one bit. Thinks they are "pretentious a-musical wank" (we have comparable turns of phrase too in case you didnt notice :))

Back on track with teh movies, Big Wednesday is one of his favourites too, as is Cool Hand Luke and the Blues Brothers two of my other firm favourites.


and itt we prove Matty's love of music is genetic.
Must be Y linked. My mom likes MIchael Bolton and Celine Dion, and my sister thinks Westlife are pretty good :)

[Goldie]

Book - Confessions of a Hitchhiker I don't know the author.
I was 12 yrs old when i read it and my mom would have DIED if she'd known i'd read it. (I think I bought it at a yard sale)
It was the first time I learned that a woman could own and enjoy her own sexuality.

She was having sex and sleeping in rest areas, as I recall.

It opened my eyes. :)
ETA: The book was probably shit, but at 12, it was the coolest book... ever!

[BWE]

I can't point at any one book or movie that resulted in some drastically life-changing action being taken, but there were two books that profoundly changed the way I looked at life. One was Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig, and the other was Godel, Escher, Bach: The Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hofstadter.

Zen AtAoMM changed my life. It gave me the bit I was missing to turn a book I was writing as a short fun comedy into a behemoth that took 3 years to finish the rough draft.

[BWE]

I can't point at any one book or movie that resulted in some drastically life-changing action being taken, but there were two books that profoundly changed the way I looked at life. One was Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig, and the other was Godel, Escher, Bach: The Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hofstadter.

GEB was a really good book. But as someone else mentioned, I got more out of Sagan's Demon-Haunted World. Russell's Why I Am Not a Christian also moved me, but not as much as Smith's Atheism: The Case Against God.

GEB gave me vocabulary and details I didn't have before I read it but it was almost surprising that I got not a single new conclusion out of it. I loved it. I reference it almost daily. It gave me language to express ideas that I already assumed and was comfortable with but couldn't have explained without it.

[dug_down_deep]

I can't point at any one book or movie that resulted in some drastically life-changing action being taken, but there were two books that profoundly changed the way I looked at life. One was Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig, and the other was Godel, Escher, Bach: The Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hofstadter.

Zen AtAoMM changed my life. It gave me the bit I was missing to turn a book I was writing as a short fun comedy into a behemoth that took 3 years to finish the rough draft.
Where is this book? Is it still in draft form?

[BWE]

I can't point at any one book or movie that resulted in some drastically life-changing action being taken, but there were two books that profoundly changed the way I looked at life. One was Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig, and the other was Godel, Escher, Bach: The Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hofstadter.

Zen AtAoMM changed my life. It gave me the bit I was missing to turn a book I was writing as a short fun comedy into a behemoth that took 3 years to finish the rough draft.
Where is this book? Is it still in draft form?

Yep. I'm in revision hell.

[dug_down_deep]

Carry on, then. And let us know when we can read it.

[BWE]

will do.

[Steviepinhead]

Gotta go with Notta on LOTR. That and the Marvel Comics of the early '60s to early '70s certainly dominated my life for a time, and showed me that a sufficiently committed act of creativity could change reality for the better.

It's harder to think of movies that had the same degree of ongoing impact on my impressionable young self, but I was certainly in love with Julie Christie for a while after seeing Dr. Zhivago and Far From The Madding Crowd...

The Beatles, The Stones, Dylan, Donovan...

Some of the first several live rock concerts I attended in the '67-'68 timeframe made a big impact, particularly one of Buffalo Springfield's last concerts in San Francisco.

And Neil Young's and Crazy Horse's "Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere" album...

Heh! And then there was my first encounter with AF Dave Hawkins and his "Traveling Circus" back at the After the Bar Closes forum off of the Talk Origins/Panda's Thumb website. I don't know if that counts in the same category as a book, movie, or song, but without stumbling upon that lengthy forum thread -- and its many successors -- I probably wouldn't have "met" (and in some cases, actually met) many of you or be here at SecCaf today! :evil:

I'd better stop there, or I'll start talking about that first Porky Pig comic I read when I was three or four. And "AllAbout" books. And my high school U.S. history teacher. And my first girlfriend...

[Steviepinhead]

Is this site slow today or what?!?

[dug_down_deep]

Tell Me Why (http://blog.wired.com/geekdad/2007/05/tell_me_why.html) books - remember them? I used to devour those, along with World Book Encyclopedia articles.

[Steviepinhead]

Yah! Good ol' print encycolopedias, several versions of which circulated through our home over the years.

My mom (who was a schoolteacher, and daughter of a schoolteacher, but the granddaughter of an artist) also eventually subscribed to the "Great Books of the Western World."

I eventually read parts of most of them during my early to mid-teens (I particularly remember perusing the naughty bits of Rabelais...), but what I remember most were the commentaries that were put out every few years. In particular, these introduced me to the concept of black holes, how lasers worked, and other such arcana. :notworthy:

[BigEvil]

Big Wednesday is hugely emotive for me in a number of ways, although it was some years later we had a similar lifestyle in some ways, not entirely coincidentally, and that films rites of passage etc always seemed significant to us as a gang.

Southern Comfort changed my life in a different way, as well as being one of the more brutal films i watched at an early teen age and therefore an eye opener in that manner, i remember asking dad about the moody theme music and who it was.

"That son, is bottleneck guitar, bluesy music played with a slide and from the Southern states round where this film is set. The bloke playing it is Ry Cooder, he's well good, i'll pick you some up "

and the rest........:)

Wow, I remember that movie. Only saw it once when it first came out, and I still vividly remember the hog butchering scene.

[BigEvil]

When I was 14 or 15, I started reading tons of Samuel Clements/Mark Twain.
Innocents Abroad, The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories, Life on the Mississippi, Huck Finn.

I began reading them as a young bible-toting fundie teenager and finished as a non-denominational theist. I could never take Christianity or any religious institution serious ever again.

A few years later I would read Bertrand Russell's Why I Am Not A Christian and lost all belief in a soul.

[Matty]

Wow, I remember that movie. Only saw it once when it first came out, and I still vividly remember the hog butchering scene.Yeah that one stuck with me too.

It introduced me to Cajun music too which although it is no where up there with slide as a favourite, i still dig from time to time. .

[Goldie]

I worked in juvenile detention when this song came out. It was before you could find lyrics on the internet. I wrote them from memory, by hand for several teens.

The lines, along with the visuals of this video
"It seems no one can help me now. I'm in too deep. There's no way out. This time I have really led myself astray." (And the boy takes the candy. ....:(
I don't know if it changed me, but....no... it DID. It made me even more determined to help at risk youth. ...and I did.
So I guess a music video changed my life. It depicts scenarios I know all too well.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psP1bKKEtHg&NR=1

[Lanakila]

As a Christian I read a lot of books. One that challenged me profoundly as a fundamentalist and changed my life was: The Pharisee's Guide To Total Holiness. It challenged legalism and I came from a legalistic Christian background as a fundy Baptist believer. I then read a book by John MaCarthur called: Can God Bless America. It was a challenge to the idea of America being a Christian nation or chosen by God. I needed this before I became a member of Falwell's church as it inoculated me against politically active Christianity.

When deconverting I first read Rene' Descartes book entitled Discourse on Method. Then while studying apologetics at the time through Liberty's external degree program I read the Book Your Church Doesn't Want You To Read. It was like suddenly I realized the whole idea of Christianity was dependent on circular reasoning.

After deonverting I was turned on to Robert Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land, Time Enough For Love challenged my morals in ways they'd never been challenged before.

Movies that have influenced me in any way are hard for me to think of. The Exorcist scared the crap out of me as a teenager and probably helped make me an easy convert to Christianity.

[nygreenguy]

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This 3 min. clip did more than anything.

[Matty]

i know i commented but :notworthy: anyway.

what a great clip. I've read that before but never seen the actual series, thats from Cosmos right?

[Daynna]

I last saw "Heavy Metal" when I was about 19.. and never sober. I prefer to remember it that way. :) Couldn't even tell you what it was about anymore!

I learned from seeing "Battle Royale" several times that I think teenagers fighting to the death is awesome. I never knew that about myself.

[VoxRat]

"2001: A Space Odyssey".
Though I'd be hard pressed to tell you exactly why.
Or what the contribution of the 100 µg of LSD was.

[rlogan]

Not really.

I liked stuff that appealed to an inner calling. Robinson Cruseau as a boy.

[Tangiellis]

"The Namesake."

That movie altered how I viewed my life because I could relate so heavily to the central character. I realized that I'd been running from who I was, embracing things that weren't me. It woke me up to a side of myself I'd been denying: where you come from.