Have you ever felt like a scruffy car that needed a good maintenance until someone came along and helped you fix your life, picked yourself up and dusted you off and get back up again? If so, then the movie “Finding Graceland” might be the right film for you. This movie is a remarkable masterpiece with a powerful meaning, where setting, acting and overall delivery of the message work together to deliver a great spiritual story.
The Movie is introducing the character of Bern (Johnathon Schaech) as a widower who just lost his wife Beatrice (Gretchen Mol) in a car accident. He seems that he is blaming himself for what happened and can’t get over it. Further along, while going on a road trip, he meets this hitchhiker who claims to be “Elvis” …show more content…
Bern’s character is as important as Elvis’s without one we wouldn’t distinguish the other. They are two sides of one coin. Moreover, Byron character was much highlighted with the use of dilapidated blue 1959 Cadillac convertible vehicle as a mirror of Byron interior emotion. The blue car is wrecked, ruined and broken-down similar to Byron’s psyche in the beginning of the movie. As film review from http://variety.com/1998/film/reviews/finding-graceland-1200454980/ by Brendan Kelly who stated “Byron is a pretty morose type, still in a funk over the accidental death of his wife, Beatrice (Gretchen Mol), in a car accident a year earlier. In fact, he hasn’t had the stamina to repair his car since she died, and he’s rolling down the freeway in a beat-up vehicle that doesn’t even have a door on the driver’s side”. Eventually, by the end of the film, Byron felt so much better and took another turn and decided to move on with the beginning of a new love …show more content…
Furthermore, how Elvis character, even though he was himself a subject of a tragedy when he lost his wife and child in an airplane crash the same day the king of rock and roll died. He didn’t give up on life or spiral out of despair but decided to impersonate Elvis’s identity and try to travel the country and try to ease the suffering of people he encounters on his journey, as a mechanism to deal with his own tragedy. Agreeing with the film review from http://www.spiritualityandpractice.com /films/reviews/view/1762 by Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat. They said: “Yes, indeed. The healing balm of grace that Elvis bestows upon Byron is a wonder to behold”. Many lessons can be learned from this movie, mostly to live our life to the fullest of its potential and not dwell on tragedy. As Lucius Seneca quotes “ Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s
The Movie is introducing the character of Bern (Johnathon Schaech) as a widower who just lost his wife Beatrice (Gretchen Mol) in a car accident. He seems that he is blaming himself for what happened and can’t get over it. Further along, while going on a road trip, he meets this hitchhiker who claims to be “Elvis” …show more content…
Bern’s character is as important as Elvis’s without one we wouldn’t distinguish the other. They are two sides of one coin. Moreover, Byron character was much highlighted with the use of dilapidated blue 1959 Cadillac convertible vehicle as a mirror of Byron interior emotion. The blue car is wrecked, ruined and broken-down similar to Byron’s psyche in the beginning of the movie. As film review from http://variety.com/1998/film/reviews/finding-graceland-1200454980/ by Brendan Kelly who stated “Byron is a pretty morose type, still in a funk over the accidental death of his wife, Beatrice (Gretchen Mol), in a car accident a year earlier. In fact, he hasn’t had the stamina to repair his car since she died, and he’s rolling down the freeway in a beat-up vehicle that doesn’t even have a door on the driver’s side”. Eventually, by the end of the film, Byron felt so much better and took another turn and decided to move on with the beginning of a new love …show more content…
Furthermore, how Elvis character, even though he was himself a subject of a tragedy when he lost his wife and child in an airplane crash the same day the king of rock and roll died. He didn’t give up on life or spiral out of despair but decided to impersonate Elvis’s identity and try to travel the country and try to ease the suffering of people he encounters on his journey, as a mechanism to deal with his own tragedy. Agreeing with the film review from http://www.spiritualityandpractice.com /films/reviews/view/1762 by Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat. They said: “Yes, indeed. The healing balm of grace that Elvis bestows upon Byron is a wonder to behold”. Many lessons can be learned from this movie, mostly to live our life to the fullest of its potential and not dwell on tragedy. As Lucius Seneca quotes “ Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s