These are some of the films / books / media that hit me at exactly the right / wrong time, and created a powerful, sometimes life-changing response in me:
- Just now, today: The Complete Moonshadow by J.M. DeMatteis and Jon Muth
- Jimmie Corrigan, The Smartest Kid on Earth by Chris Ware
- Grendel by John Gardner
- White Noise by Don DeLillo
- Let’s All Kill Constance by Ray Bradbury
- The Unbearable Lightness of Being (film)
- American Beauty (film)
- Bye Bye Pride by the Go-Betweens (song)
The particular impact each of these pieces had on me, and the real-life repercussions, are perhaps left to their own blog posts / novels / stories / movies. The point I’m making:
Beware of art. Or… dare to be-aware of art. It’s serious.
What’s done it for you? Discuss.
Possibly related posts:
Films:
Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948)
Hud (1963)
Doctor Zhivago (1965)
Alfie (1966)
Cool Hand Luke (1967)
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
The Sting (1973)
Somewhere in Time (1980)
Message in a Bottle (1999)
and too many more to list…
Music:
Somewhere Over the Rainbow (not because of the film)
In My Solitude (sung by Eileen Barton)
I Have a Dream (by ABBA)
Cry (sung by Johnny/Johnnie Ray)
Ivory Tower
Lara’s Theme from film Dr. Zhivago
and oh so many more…