Monday, October 8, 2007
This week in AIS we watched a very meaningful documentary titttled "Be Good, Smile Pretty" The movie was about a daughter going across America find information about her unknown father. By the end of the movie the daughter said that in a way she felt luckey because she got to know her father in a completely different way than how she would've if he was actually around to be her father. In a way she was luckey because in life one rarely ever gets to see so many pictures, or talk to their parents friends, co-workers, and family so deeply on their life. I think it's very interesting because one never really gets to hear what other people think of them because in life we all usually live in the moment so to hear what the close people around you think of you or the stories they tell from their point of view could be very interesting. And even though I would like to think that if I died people would have stories to tell about me and there would be alot to commemorate me on. But when you think about life is such a prescious thing and if you dont live in the moment or enjoy it while you can no one will ever be able to remeber who "that" kid was.
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I really liked your post Mark, it mentioned a lot of things that I thought about when I watched the film as well. I'm torn on the subject of what information she recieved about her father. On one hand, she found so many pictures, videos and letters that she would have never had access to had he been alive for the majority of her life. However, seeing as her father was seen as a war hero, the only stories people tell of him are good, heroic ones. It goes along with the saying "do not speak ill of the dead." People are only telling her what they want her to hear about her father, that he was a great guy, not any of the negative parts about him.
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