1776
National Treasure
Independence Day
Miracle
Hidden Figures
Red Dawn (1984)
Saving Private Ryan
A simple explanation. The names of the movies tell a story. In 1776, we received a National Treasure on Independence Day. It was a Miracle. Since then, Hidden Figures have taken things from us. From there I’m not sure what to do with the last two.
S NIMH RS.
To me, this evokes the movie The Secret of NIMH, which our family loved for a single line. The movie centers on a family of rats, who live in a farmer's field. Every year, the farmer plows his field, forcing the rats to relocate. The rats call the day of plowing "moving day", and the key line is, "It's moving day! Run for your lives!"
I have always felt this way about moving day, and this week has brought it back in spades. My wife rescued her mother last Thanksgiving. Her mother's house was infested with bedbugs and a sub-foundation plumbing leak had caused a mold problem. Mrs. AZLiberty extracted her mother from her house in Amarillo, decontaminated her, and brought her to our house in Arizona.
This week I brought my MIL back to Amarillo to deal with her house, a long-delayed consequence of "moving day". The plan was to rent a truck, fill it with a few important things, drive back to Arizona, pay someone else to deal with the rest of the stuff, and finally use one of those "ugly houses" companies to get rid of the house.
It was worse than I imagined. The poor dear had inherited everything from her parents (because both her siblings died around age 50), from an ex-husband, and from a second husband. People talk about cats having nine lives. My MIL was carrying the baggage of almost that many lives (including furniture built by her grandfather), and -- being a child of depression -- found it difficult to let go of anything. A four-bedroom house was so full of stuff that there was barely a path to walk into any of the rooms of the house, including the living room and the laundry room.
We've spent a week picking through the stuff and now have on the truck far more than she can possibly accommodate in her apartment in Arizona. Some of it is documents that she didn't have time to sort through, including important information about a variety of small oil leases. Another part is a large collection of vintage 78s and LPs, which she'll sell once she catalogues them.
Tomorrow we head back to Arizona. "It's moving day! Run for your lives!"
1776
National Treasure
Independence Day
Miracle
Hidden Figures
Red Dawn (1984)
Saving Private Ryan
These are all movies about overcoming adversity - never giving up - in addition to looking like the Liberty Bell when you center them...
Encouragement for us to keep working, to persevere?
I think the final message of Saving Private Ryan could have been termed as “where we go one we go all”.
1776
National Treasure
Independence Day
Miracle
Hidden Figures
Red Dawn (1984)
Saving Private Ryan
A simple explanation. The names of the movies tell a story. In 1776, we received a National Treasure on Independence Day. It was a Miracle. Since then, Hidden Figures have taken things from us. From there I’m not sure what to do with the last two.
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Great analysis Mongrel. How about Since then Hidden figures infiltrated US under a red dawn (by Red diaper babies) and Trump and Company are saving private Ryan. My dad was in the Navy and he always said Red sky at night, sailor’s delight. Red sky in morning, sailor’s warning”