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July 22, 2024,
When you were a child, born into a loving family, the world was a wonderful place.
As you began to grow and gain experiences, the future looked bright.
If you were fortunate, by the time you reached the high school level, life was still filled with optimism, hopefully.
Reality often begins to set in after college. Actually, during.
Did you find the love of your life? Wonderful if you did. Many of us don’t, and now, mommy and daddy cannot help you.
Fulfilling dreams start to become a little more elusive.
The great job that got away. The college debt that won’t go away. The dream mate who fell in love with, loves someone else. If any of those things are true, at some point, you have to pick up the pieces of a broken dream before it becomes a broken life.
When things have not worked out, our experience has taught us to keep dreaming and dream big, especially if you are young. Absolutely do not give up or settle early. You don’t have to.
But you do need to keep fighting with no guarantees in front of you.
Let’s turn to film.
Half Light is a 2006 romantic thriller film written and directed by Craig Rosenberg.
It stars Demi Moore as a successful novelist who moves to a small Scottish village to move on with her life after the death of her son. Hans Matheson, James Cosmo, Henry Ian Cusick, Kate Isitt, and Therese Bradley appear in supporting roles.
So, at first, we have a successful novelist where things appear to be going splendid. She has a wonderful family life, big money coming and is young and beautiful.
Then her son accidentally drowns.
As you might guess, things go deeply south.
Several months later Rachel still blames herself for the death of her son, and is not only unable to finish her book but is also a signature away from formally being divorced from her second husband. In an effort to finish her novel and find some peace, Rachel moves away to a remote cottage on the Scottish coast.
While the story has standard potboiler threads, what we liked most about the film was Demi Moore’s performance. We could feel her disappointment and incredible pain.
Ultimately, it was an excellent tale about moving on.
Another aspect of life’s disappointments in when someone you love wounds you deeply. Having disagreements is one thing but adultery and financial betrayal take it to a whole different level.
In so many tales, those who lost, have to pick up the pieces.
Over the years, there have been a number of extremely sad films we have watched. Here are a few.
Onegin, starring the exceptional Ralph Fiennes and Liv Tyler, in one of her best honest portrayals of a Russian country girl lacking in worldly experience but wise beyond her years. This is the ultimate story of love lost. The ending scene is devastating.
A Summer Story, a 1988 classic about people from two cast systems who find a love they will never find again and one squanders it.
Let’s turn to television. In particular, the Star Trek series.
Star Trek the Next Generation’s sad and moving episode, Galaxy’s Child features Geordi La Forge finally meeting Doctor Leah Brahms, a woman he fell in love with on the Holodeck, only to find out in real life, why they can never be together.
We’ll conclude with perhaps the saddest of them all, Star Trek Voyager’s episode “Real Life” where Robert Picardo, as the Hologram Doctor, creates a family in the Holodeck, to experience a real family and boy does he. So much so that he doesn’t want to return to the Holodeck to finish it, but has to.
Let’s focus on the timeless masterpiece The Heiress, a little closer.
The Heiress is a 1949 American romantic drama film directed and produced by William Wyler, from a screenplay written by Ruth and Augustus Goetz, adapted from their 1947 stage play of the same title, which was itself adapted from Henry James‘ 1880 novel Washington Square.
The film stars Olivia de Havilland as Catherine Sloper, a naive young woman who falls in love with a handsome young man despite the objections of her emotionally abusive father who suspects the man of being a fortune hunter (hint, he is).
Montgomery Clift stars as Morris Townsend, and Ralph Richardson as Dr. Sloper.
The film received a leading eight nominations at the 22nd Academy Awards, including for the Best Picture, and won four awards (more than any other film nominated that year): Best Actress (for de Havilland), Best Original Score, composed by Aaron Copland, Best Production Design, and Best Costume Design.
In 1849 New York City, Catherine Sloper, a plain and shy young woman, lives with her wealthy father, Dr. Austin Sloper, in the prestigious Washington Square. Catherine’s mother, who was charming and talented, died early, and quiet Catherine constantly disappoints her father with her lack of social graces. Catherine’s widowed Aunt Lavinia Penniman moves in and suggests she help Catherine improve her social skills.
At some point Catherine and Morris decide to elope. The challenge is, something may have changed in Catherine’s inheritance because, against her father’s wishes, she stayed true to Morris.
Or did it change?
Morris thinks it has changed and doesn’t show up for their appointed time.
This has to be one of the most devastating scenes in film history. You feel Catherine’s deep sorrow as she becomes painfully aware that Morris is not going to show.
Soon, she has to pick up the pieces and try and get on with life.
In this short life, when we are gravely disappointed or things, long dreamed for, do not turn out as we had hoped, some way, somehow, we have to pick up the pieces and more forward.
We have to.
The hope is, at this point, you may have to re-invent yourself and your new life.
Do it. Re-create. Re-invent. Take steps going forward.
If you do, sometimes you might find something incredibly beautiful that you thought would never happen.
Due to your determination to pick up the pieces and go forward, the new life you created turns out to be far better than the one you dreamed of and lost.
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