Unbridled joy and passion

Rating: 10/10 (10 January 2017)

When a movie starts winning awards, all the awards in this case at the Golden Globes, we often want to know what the message is behind the movie. When a film is up for seven of the most prestigious Golden Globe awards including best picture and screenplay, and it wins every one of them, then it certainly must be a movie with a message. I really liked the film. I was invested in the characters. I liked them, I cared what happened to them. I recommend the film and I wholeheartedly recommend you watch it in the spirit, or under the spell if you will, of the purpose of the movie. If you do I believe you will enjoy it all the more. After the Golden Globes the news of the night seemed to be Meryl Streep's rebuking remarks and whether or not they were justified. For me, however, the focus of the night was on this movie musical and its significant message. In his acceptance speech, producer Marc Platt spelled out the message beautifully and simply. He said, and he put a shout out for more of cinema to do the same, the picture was "to make us feel, not through cynicism or irony, but with unbridled joy and passion, to dream more urgently, to live more fervently, and love more deeply. And now more than ever to find music and cinema that enters our mind and our soul and our hearts and unites us." That's the message of this movie. Embrace it and you're going to love it.