Meet Joe Black: a step into reality

Rating: 9/10 (30 June 2007)

I loved the movie, obviously. First off I love seeing guys who do things so right. Pitt really shows the perfect example of how to hit on a girl in this movie. It was done with such class that every guy should aim to achieve. But this movie like most had certain parts that really hit home for me. Parts like the final dialog between BP and his eldest daughter, where she expresses that she is doing all the work for his party because she, and everyone else, loves him. As she goes on to describe her feelings in relation to her dad and his other daughter, about being his favorite. Any other movie would have the father say thats not true, doing like most of us would, trying to comfort his daughter. But Hopkins doesn't, he just stands there because he knows it's true and he knows that thats life! Not everything will work out so that everyone loves everyone else as much as we all wish they did. Even his daughter admits that, "it's OK, you're allowed to have favorites. The point is that you were mine." I love that realism! THATS honesty! Simple words, "it's OK." While they don't really change the situation, bring us together and make everything OK. I guess I adore that honesty most because I feel like I have to work SO hard to get it in real life, so maybe that plays too big a part in how I rate my movies. But maybe it doesn't, after all that is what movies are, part of my life. And they only mean anything if you attribute meaning to them. Also, you could say this movie is not a typical chick flick, because the guy doesn't get the girl, per say. But thats another thing that I love about it, death actually does the right thing, none of this love concurs all crap! I'm not trying to kill all that true love really is, but it's nice to see two people actually trying to identify love and not just listing to their feelings, often what people consider love. they identify that this is not an appropriate match. THATS responsibility!!! Ignoring what you feel to do what is right. So the irony is that Joe never really loved her because he really didn't know her that well, and vice verse. Anthony states one factor of love being, "to not hurt the one you love." Death was going to do that because he wanted her so bad he was going to take her, and that would hurt her and he wouldn't be showing love. But in the end he doesn't, and at first glance you would say, "but since he doesn't hurt her and he does fight his feelings to let her live her life, then he does love her." But if you read between the lines you will see he did it for Anthony. It's that bond between them that he holds on to in order to make his choice. So in the end the man he chose to guide him through life does just that and I guess Joe being a good guy all along picked correctly when we was looking for, "someone with the ability to instruct." It's a movie all about this great man at the end of his rope.