The Book Club was turned into a Book/Movie Club and you know me...squeezing two words together is practically a hobby of mine. Ryan had a brilliant idea to get us together without all of the stress of trying to read a book once a month with the crazy lives we all have. This way we get a break in between and can come together to watch a great film and discuss it afterward.
We started with the classic Rear Window. By the end of the discussion we realized how much our lives are sort of like the man forced to spend weeks in a wheelchair staring out at the world in his backyard. We have social media that allows us to "look in" on all our people and the even the ones that used to be distant...like celebrities. We have reality tv, facebook, instagram, twitter, tumblr and blogs. We know where people are, when they are there and who they are with. Little updates tell us how they are feeling, catch us up with the news, show us the dinners they are eating. We are all voyeurs watching out of a window at the world below us...making Hitchcock's message almost prophetic and this movie choice quite interesting. It was a great night even if I had to get used to watching the amazing new television!
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