Tuesday, April 17, 2012

"Elgar Love" - Feature Documentary

This movie was very enjoyable. I liked the style of story-telling that this doc had. It was straightforward but I liked that it had the music in the background as it was going through the story of this man’s music composition career. It had the various pictures to go along with it. Almost like a Ken Burn’s type of approach, yet, this was more personal and centered on one man. I liked how at the beginning it did not seem like such a big deal concerning this man. If they would have said something along the lines “this is the story of the guy who composed this song that is famous” I would not have been too interested in paying too much attention to it.  I already would know the purpose for the movie and that just does not make the rest that important. There is no doubt, however, that this man’s life is one of inspiration. It is very much a story of not giving up on your dreams, as cheesy as that sounds. But I think that it is a reminder of how we should just follow what we think is right not by what others might think we should make of our lives. He had the added bonus of having his wife support him along with his character to be successful later on. It took a lot of years, too many it seems. It was all-worthwhile though. He had worked very hard on that dream and he finally accomplished it and would be heard for generations to come.

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