"Those summers saved my life": this line is very important in the film. The film is a Ridley Scott, A Good Year. How many of us don't feel the same, saved by some moments of our distant childhood? A special relationship, a grandmother, a grandfather... for Jack it was uncle Henry. Long conversations, laughter, empathy among the older and the very young. The best treasures are hidden in our hearts. So, the choice is clear: "life" over "money".
This week we have a Paul Newman, Rachel Rachel. A teacher lives with her mother in a small town. She wakes up wishing to be dead. No family of her own, no prospects, no future. She has so much to give and all that is buried in a house still smelling of death. And on top of that a selfish mother incapable of love. That summer holidays she finds the warmth of intimicy with a childhood friend but for him it's only a summer thing. He's also haunted by his childhood A close friend from school takes her to a local church and this traumatic experience reveals her hunger for love. She decides to leave, and this decision makes her feel hopeful for the first time. An uncertain future is a future nevertheless.
