This is just for you spoderbilt, should you ever again decide to grace this board with your presence.
"Dexter Rutecki lived a life that was short and funny and sad and hard and good. Most of the time it was good. It was good the day he died. The snow was deep and pure white. The sun high and cold. He was my best friend."
Unfortunately, that is all I can make out with my zoom on level four, only getting the first page of text, and not even getting all of that. Man, it ain't Steinbeck, but it ain't half bad either. Watching the film, you can almost fill in the rest of Burke's story.
You know, this film isn't all that bad. Besides the skiing, yes, it is predictable, but it's also pretty darn good. It deals with a lot more than just a best friend loosing his buddy. There is a man's climb to the top, the value of friendship, and the horror when your world comes crashing down. Then there is the loss of a dear friend, the bittersweet memories, the remorse and how you deal with it all without killing yourself. When it ends, yes, it is predictable that T.J. would end up with Robin. So what?
You just can't please everyone, you know. Someone writes a story and, big surprise, the hero ends up with the heroine. That's all fine, well, and good, but then the critics say "It's predictable". Okay, so maybe you try again and this time the hero doesn't get the girl, or otherwise doesn't succeed, and maybe even gets killed. What then o critic? "It's depressing".
Oh, well excuse me whilst I try to please everyone! So what if you do try and please everyone and you get a mix of success and failure, wins and losses, LIFE AND DEATH. Then, when the ever present critics get their say, you still loose. Do you want to know why? "I wouldn't bother seeing this movie. Not because the story isn't good, the acting isn't good, or the directing isn't good. No, all of those things are good. The reason I wouldn't waste $8 seeing this movie is that it's real life. If you've ever lived a day then you've seen this movie. That's just simply not why we go see movies."
And, you know, I guess it's really not why we go see movies. We go see movies to either be depressed, happy, or vindicated that we knew exactly what was going to happen next. Personally, I was happy after this film and that, to me, is all that matters. Predictable, yes, but I say again, SO WHAT?
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