August Rush - Maybe my favorite movie?

Last night, my wife and I went to see August Rush. It is a really amazing movie. The first movie in a long time where I had decided to go see it again and buy the DVD even before the movie was half over.

August Rush is about an orphan boy who never believed he was unwanted and that his family was looking for him. He had an amazing ability to hear the world around him and what he heard was an amazing symphony. He believed that if he could find a way to play that symphony back, he family would find him.

When he was asked "What do you want to be?", his one word reply was simply "Found.".

Seeing August smile as he listened to the world around him or as he played made it clear that he was experiencing what God created him to be. Even with the turmoil around him, he never gave up that connection. I picture August later in life looking back and seeing God's hand in guiding him and showing His love for him.

The cynic will see only an impossible string of coincidences and an incredibly sappy movie. I see what we can all find in life if we are only willing to listen.

An interesting side note is that we saw the movie "Open Captioned" which is similar to subtitles or closed caption but mush less obtrusive and in addition to the spoken words they describe the sounds that are happening in the movie such as "music builds" or "rustling of leaves" for example. We were thinking it would be distracting but in a movie where so much of the movie is in the sounds that we get to hear through the ears of August it was really interesting to "hear" it through yet another avenue.

Comments

[barb]

Thank you for putting into words the emotional/spiritual response that I had to the movie. Wizard has the most profound words... to paraphrase (badly): "Music is what tells us that there is something else out there." All of the arts should draw us toward a connection with that "something else," who we know is our God.