It’s been a while since I watched and enjoyed some really sappy/cheesy flick, mmh... I said flick, and yes I know it has not been the 90s for a long time. Anyways, I realize that this does nothing for my image as the strong, intelligent level headed woman I know I am, but, once in a while it is okay to drop the cynicism and just pretend that life is sweet and rosy filled with happy endings. So I caught a damn flick and if you have something to say to me, say it I dare you, and the sweet optimist’s image will drop faster than you can say ‘chick flick’.
So there we have it. I watched a joyful noise mostly because Queen Latifa and Dolly Parton seemed to be such a volatile awkward mix when I caught the sneak peak sometime back. I was thinking that I love these two separately kind of like how I love Fish and Chocolate (in separate plates at different time preferably after I brush my teeth.) You get the idea, these two singers, in my book at least, should never mix. Well that was before, it turned out that my stupid book was wrong, they go really well together, now it looks like I have to rewrite my misguided judgmental book or borrow someone else’s.
Back to a joyful noise, it was surprisingly fun, nothing profound or life altering just simple unthinking fun. Some critics will disagree but if you always want to pay attention to realistic, depressing storylines, don’t go to the movies just look at your life, or your neighbours. That should be pretty realistic and depressing and you can ‘acclaim’ that.
Maybe the movie is fun because it is awesome to just believe in succeeding against insurmountable odds without calculating the probabilities, it may seem blonde or weak but I loved that movie and all the beautiful music. This one scene with a rendition of’ the man in the mirror’ brought a tear to my eye nothing fell through. Maybe part of why I was making a joyful noise myself was my love of Music and there is some impressive talent here but maybe I just loved losing myself in happy endings and the idea of beating incredible odds. I played pretend for a little while and made a joyful noise. You should try it.
