The Eggman's Journey Into Films: July 2024

Sunday, July 21, 2024

DRIVING MADELEINE

How often do we encounter someone for a brief time, who rewards our soul and shapes our understanding of humanity simply by offering a different lens through which to calibrate the world around us? Driving Madeleine is an immensely fulfilling movie that explores one such encounter.

My Film Journey Origin

In 2020, I decided to make a new sort of New Year's Goal. I set out to watch every Oscar-Winning Best Picture that I had never previously seen. When I put my list together, it turned out that I would need to see 59 films by the end of the year to make my goal!

After undertaking my first selection, Terms of Endearment, I posted a fairly mundane entry on my FaceBook feed about my 2020 goal and a few of my thoughts about the film. This led to a large number of comments from friends asking that I continue sharing my film journey so they could follow along. So I did!

Little did I know that just four months after embarking on this project, the world would enter into a global shutdown. The COVID-19 pandemic gave me much more time at home than I had been accustomed to. In a way, my 2020 resolution ended up being a much-needed coping mechanism for the isolation that the pandemic brought.

At first, my comments were concise and observational, but I soon found that I enjoyed trying to get more in-depth with my viewing experiences. It became a true passion. So much so, that when my 2020 journey was over I found through 2021 that I really missed writing. I also missed my film journey and being exposed to the wonders of good cinema. So in 2022, I took a second film journey, this time setting the goal to see every Meryl Streep film I'd not yet seen. Then in 2023, I set a goal to see a random list of films that had some cinematic significance or were recommended through friends. As 2023 drew to a close, I realized that I had outgrown FaceBook and wanted a platform where I could expound my thoughts and feelings further. I also hoped I might find a wider audience of folk who are equally turned-on to the magic and splendor of the century worth of films that I want to continue diving into.

In the latter months of 2023, I slowly copied my three years of FaceBook reviews over to this blog. Now it's time to grow some more! This will be my new home for continued commentary on all things related to my burgeoning passion for motion pictures!

If you have found your way here, I hope that I can remind you to go rewatch a film you love, or inspire you to check out a flick you may not have seen or even heard of! Feel free to follow along and comment. All thoughts, appreciation, and criticisms are welcome!

I said that I've developed a passion for writing. Whether I'm any good at it, time will tell! But as they say, practice makes perfect! Let's see if what they say is true!

Sunday, July 21, 2024

DRIVING MADELEINE

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