The first time I tried to watch In Her Shoes I was on an airplane and fell asleep. So all I really remembered about it was that it was a good sleeping pill. Today I was on an airplane again and got another shot at this movie. The first half didn’t really do much for me. The plot was predictable and pretty unoriginal.

There were a few moments that kept me watching though. The combination of wild sister Magie in a retirement home were entertaining at times. But what I really liked was a poem that Magie reads calles One Art (The art of losing isn’t hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster…). That poem is beautiful, and getting to know it for me was worth watching the movie.

I totally forgot that I had already watched this until I watched it again yesterday. So . . . that probably sums it up best for me: Totally Forgetable.

basically a great story. watch it.

here’s the poem from the movie:

e.e. Cummings – i carry your heart

i carry your heart with me(i carry it in
my heart)i am never without it(anywhere
i go you go,my dear;and whatever is done
by only me is your doing,my darling)
no fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)i want
no world(for beautiful you are my world,my true)
and it’s you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you

i fear

here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which grows
higher than soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that’s keeping the stars apart

i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart)

I’ve seen this movie before, but watched it again with a group of girlfriends last night, after a delicious Thai meal. I really like this movie. I like it’s messages: that we’re all capable of change, that what is right for one person isn’t necessarily right for the next, that we’re all lovable. It’s not overly taking mentally, and you feel great after having watched it. I’m reliably told that the book is at least as good – so I’m going to add it to my “to read” list.

I didn’t think much of the book, but the movie was worse. I didn’t expect anything from the movie (I have a strange compulsion to see movies based on books I’ve read, even when the books weren’t good), but it was below my expectations. I’m glad I spent the whole movie only half-paying attention and doing stuff online.