Best Scene 2017
Another hard choice to make. I really love the Roosevelt phone call in The Darkest Hour. Could have chosen ten different scenes from Phantom Thread...kind of, the meet cute or first date would have been my likely choices. Tom Hardy's landing in Dunkirk. Elvis hologram in Blade Runner. All have stuck with me and would have been good choices but I decided to go with a musical scene. There is really something about a great musical interlude that can immediately evoke the emotion I am feeling for the film. A good song kind of wraps up the whole story arc like the interlude in Magnolia. What I love about the words of this song in Meyerowitz stories is that the words are simple, he wrote it for her when she was very young, but it still tells the entire story. It is basically a father and daughter singing to each other about what they mean to each other. The phrase "you'll always..." is repeated over and over. There is really only one reason to tell someone that you will always feel a certain way about them. That is because sometimes you know you will do things that will make it seem like you don't feel that way. It's how love works and it is how human intimacy works. Beautiful even if very simple song and scene. I love it. Meyerowitz Stories
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