Thursday, August 4, 2016

Sunset Song

Release Date: May 13, 2016

Starring: Agyness Deyn as Chris Guthrie
Kevin Guthrie as Ewan Tavendale

The story of a girl growing up in Scotland on the brink of war. Not a story or a queen, or a wise old woman, but one of a farm girl trying to find her own path in life. While she endures love, loss, and heartbreak she we see how the war effects her life even though her family, and her people, are not the ones that the war is concerned about.

This a simple story that comes to live beautifully. It's a very full circle and foreshadowing movie. Full circle because you don't really know why the title of the movie is Sunset Song until the end of the movie, and when you hear about why we are here to experience the film it gives you such joy and pride. Foreshadowing because the one sentence that is said through the movie is "lovely thing don't always endure and they're lovelier for that". It was a profound sentence even before I saw the movie and it was even more so after the movie was over.

A simple more with a simple moral, no matter what you love when it's gone you will still think of it fondly.

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