Soul Food

Rating: 10/10 (27 February 2014)

Another reviewer wrote a wonderful review about this film but classified this movie as a dessert, I would respectfully disagree. I may have been in just the right frame of mind or seen it on the right day but to me this movie was exactly what I needed, and it is indeed soul food. I don't really feel the need to describe the plot the trailer does that well enough and the fact that I think it is a good move can be seen in my rating.
Instead I'll get a bit personal here but that's how much this movie affected me. I just finished the day looking at apartments and different parts of a city with my parents (I'm moving here in the fall for college), and I'll be honest it was a rough long day but then in our hotel room watching this movie the day completely changed as clichÃ©d as that may seem.
This movie touched me to in a way very few movies ever have and few ever will. We all have those special movies that taught us how to be a better person or made use realize something about ourselves we never saw before. About Time is one of my movies I hope it is also one of yours because those movies are why I believe film exists. Beyond the ability to entertain, they share with us a part of what it is to be human. May you find that bit of transcendence in this film and if not may you find it somewhere else because we all need it from time to time.