Ever watched a movie, read a book, or heard a song that just ruined you??

@rocket48 Said

Of Mice and men. That was my favorite book I read in 4th grade ( years ago). Still one my favorite.
The movie " Big Fish" a few years ago with Danny Divito. It was weird throughout the whole movie, but the ending pieced it all together really well. Mad me miss my Dad and made me want to be a better Dad for my son. I love that movie.

@rubylights Said

Big Fish... is that the one where they guy goes to a different land with shoes hung on a line or something??

@rocket48 Said

You are so right!! Wasn't that movie strange at first and then it was WOW, that was interesting.
I need to have my son over this weekend for Father's Day and we need to watch that again. It really does have a moral to the story.

@Xavery Said

I just reread Off Mice and Men and George is not your average person. Even if your best friend committed murder and you knew he could not be rehabilitated and he would have to live in "booby hatch," could you kill him?

Usually, we do not take the law into our own hands.It is not up to us to decide who should live and die.

You can argue that Curley would have killed Lennie and that it was humane for George to kill Lennie.

Still, this is not your point. You are right the story is beautifully written and the plot is rich.

Yes, it happens to me all the time, I read a book or watch a movie that is so good that all others suck in comparison for a while.

@Xavery Said

I still think it is very unusual. Could you kill someone you thought of as a son even as an act of mercy?

Let's face it George Milton was a totally believable character, however, there are few people like him in the real world. For one thing, he was taking care of Lennie in the first place.

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Lennie was believable, too, but how many people do you know that are strong enough to hold onto a man's hand and break all the bones in it? How many men do you know who are fixated with touching soft animals and then accidentally kill them?

@rubylights Said

I just finished reading 'Of Mice and Men' again. It's one of those books that just ruin the rest of your day and the remainder of the week, at least for me. Now I'm not going to be able to stop thinking about what it would be like if I were in George's shoes and how difficult it was and how sad everything turned out. Darn that John Steinbeck!!

Anyways, have you ever read a book that had that same effect on you? Or heard a song like that or something? Kind of like that song, 'Almost Lovers' or the movie Forrest Gump that just leaves you crying for a month??

@derekdg Said

My Brothers Keeper...can't remember the author though ...and the other one is "Let's Go Play At The Adams" by Mendal Jonstone... ...
...The first because it takes a totally realistic situation and doesn't in any way blow it out off proportion to the way that a lot of lives may EVENTUALLY end up ..scary to say the least}

And the second because of the inconclusive ending that leaves the reader thinking about "how it should have ended"
both have been books that have left the classic "what if" in the mind of the reader and pervades the thought processes of everyday life long after the book has been put down...

..Personnally I consider such material as "bastards" purely on the strength that they won't leave my brain alone even several days after reading the final chapter...wish that I were capable of penning such thought provoking and mind invasive material...I will, however suffice with my own revamped versions of the Duchess of Yorks "Budgie the Helicopter" in the hope that I might stumble upon an "Illuminati" conclusion...whaddya think

@rubylights Said

I just finished reading 'Of Mice and Men' again. It's one of those books that just ruin the rest of your day and the remainder of the week, at least for me. Now I'm not going to be able to stop thinking about what it would be like if I were in George's shoes and how difficult it was and how sad everything turned out. Darn that John Steinbeck!!

Anyways, have you ever read a book that had that same effect on you? Or heard a song like that or something? Kind of like that song, 'Almost Lovers' or the movie Forrest Gump that just leaves you crying for a month??