Songs For Your Day

First submission to the blog, needs to be a good one (fingers crossed).

Having become a subscriber to Netflix this year I have finally been able to binge on movies much more than ever before. And while this is not a post on how much I love Netflix, I just want to say without it I would not be writing this post. Without it I would not have been told to watch this little Irish movie titled “Once”.

The movie follows a simple concept,

guy meets girl…

they converse…

girl: How come you don’t play during daytime? I see you here everyday.

guy: During the daytime people would want to hear songs that they know, just songs that they recognize. I play these song at night or I wouldn’t make any money. People wouldn’t listen.

girl: I listen.

sing…

connect…

fall for each other…

What makes this love story unique is that its plays out as album. If you have ever made a mixtape to express your feelings, you will understand the instant appeal of this movie. The movie progresses as a series of songs that explain the characters past relationships, their fears, themselves. The entire movie is filmed as if a documentary, doing nothing more then capturing the moments that string the songs together. By the end it is not so much the direct events of the story that linger, but rather the undertones and emotion of the music. The final song falling slowly musically captures the essence of new love. It is as timid as it is bold. Fragile but yet somehow unbreakable. It is the perfect final track to an album about letting go of the past and continuing with the outcome unknown. It is a movie about living in the moment and loving life.

-sk