90's Movies

I just finished watching an old movie from the 1990's, it was a romantic comedy, a genre which practically dominated the most popular movies of that decade. The premise was a bit absurd, the movie seemed to be contrived to build chemistry between the leads and also show this loving community of friends and family around them. Corny by today's standards. 

But yet it seems to wake up things inside of me that I have forgotten for a long time. I don't know if it's just me grieving for my lost youth, the hopefulness and openness I felt at that period in my life where I was growing into the adult who I would be. One thing about the experience is that the movie gave me hope, it made me feel secure that people around me were loving and a support that I could lean on. It made me feel that there is goodness undergirding our lives, that joy permeates.

The movies of the last two decades can easily be described by a one word: edgy. We love pushing boundaries, raising scenarios that test the mettle of our understanding and weaknesses. We love painful reality. It's like having a steaming hot espresso on a winer morning, we love the jolt, the clarity. I have always been an imaginative person, as an introvert I have wonderful worlds inside me, inside my mind. These sustain my life, keep me from barrelling into dark places that I tend to gravitate to. This is one reason why I cannot disavow the current trends in movies, have you noticed that most popular movies nowadays are science fiction?

Bet there is something sorely missing at the heart of it, it fails to sustain me, it leaves me addicted but hungry. So every time I see Julia Roberts in one of her glorious old movies, I tend to have this little bit of joy inside. How I wish the world was as simple, honest as it was back then. Maybe we can find our way back?