John Hughes, 1950-2009
"Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it." – Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off was and is one of the best movies I have seen. It certainly defined my late high school and early college years.
Hughes paints a picture of the life of adolescents as vacuous and inane. It is followed only by adult life which is even more vacuous and inane. We cannot completely escape from these worlds, but Hughes wants to make sure that we remember to take a “day off” every once and a while to stop and look around. Let’s make sure we do not miss the important things.
Friday, August 7, 2009
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Good point Don. The generation (our generation) who grew up watching Hughes movies later became known as Gen X. Vacuous and inane are words used to describe us and I would add despondant and just a general attitude that "life is stupid". That is how we were defined (who came up with that definition I don't know). I know Hollywood portrayed us in that light and I wonder how much life imitated art. Some secular movies do have a positive messages in them however. It is just that all too often you have to muddle through lots and lots of garbage to get there which makes the garbage more pervasive than the good. At least that is how I see it.
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