What's My Line

Hi everybody. In searching for a video clip for my English teaching course, I have been watching a lot of youtube, mostly Groucho Marx and old television game shows. One very interesting clip I came across is a little long, but delightfully entertaining. I hope even those family members who most surely don't watch all the dumb videos I post will watch this one for the fun of it. I have fallen deeply in love with What's my Line.




Two nights ago, Justin and I went to see a movie we stumbled upon called "Stranded: I Have Come From A Plane that Crashed in the Mountains." I was very excited and interested to see the film since I had done a report in college researching the 1972 plane crash that left what remained of an Uruguayan rugby team and their friends and family to find survival for 72 days in the Andes. The movie was made by a filmmaker who has been friends with some of the survivors since boyhood, and he wanted a chance to tell the story the right way from each survivors mouth. He actually interviewed all 16 survivors and joined them on a trip back to the crash site 30 years later and filmed the reunion.
http://www.strandedthefilm.com/

This movie was incredibly moving. I cried so many times just watching it, and then afterwards there was a talk back with the filmmaker and Fito Strauch who was one of the 16 survivors. It was amazing. I felt truly honored to be in his presence and to have been at the premiere of this film. Afterwards, Justin and i said thanks to the director, I started crying all over again and we left to head back into the civilized world where the trains were full of stupid people and food was wasted everywhere and being sold at expensive prices. I was stuck in a daze for a long time. I tried to think of what it would be like to come back to life from where they had been. Would you just be happy to be alive? Would you love to go to that job? Would you love to be on that crowded train? Or would you wonder if there wasn't something more that kept you from giving in to death on the cold rough mountain peaks? It was a weird night after that film.

I strongly recommend it.

Love
Nicole

Ps: if we ever find ourselves in a similar situation my friends, and I pass on before the rest, I would be honored for you to use my body to keep yourself alive. And that's my final word.