"The Family Man" Movie Makes a Splash for Me
I have a list of the "perfect" movies, which you can see in the Quasi-Indefatigable Xenolith Store, but this is not one of them. Don't get me wrong, The Family Man is a wonderful movie and I cry a lot when watching it (actually I would cry in the middle of a horror movie if I actually watched horror movies, so this is not as big a thing as you might think). In a previous post, I talked about being a lot like George Bailey from It's A Wonderful Life , which I think is true, but I am not Jack Campbell, the protagonist of this movie. I'm George, not Jack. Remember that. Jack Campbell is coping with the life he could have had. If nothing else, The Family Man is an opposite of It's a Wonderful Life . Where George Bailey had to almost lose his life to understand how to be grateful for what he had, Jack Campbell had to see what kind of life he could have had so that he could see that there was more to life than what he already had. The first is a...
