Pedalling Uphill

A hollywood version of reality (based on a true story).  I don’t ususally like movies with any known ‘movie stars’ in them because I can never  get beyond that it’s Julia Roberts being paid to do her Julia Roberts smile -  same for Tom Cruise, Jack Nicholson et al.  However, this was a good movie.  For one thing, it didn’t have JUMPY CAMERA shots and it was laid out nice and clean - good acting, interesting sets and an uplifting story.

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What can I say that hasn’t already been said about this movie.  The acting all around was excellent - even that prima dona Mariah Carey proved herself in this movie.  Worth the money - good to see a movie of substance and one that makes you think.

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I was dragged to this movie because more than anything I hate Romantic Comedies  - mindless vehicles for over paid movie stars.  However, this one was a surprise in a very good way.  I couldn’t mouth the dialogue before it was spoken and the plot had some interesting twists and turn and there were some good laughs too.   A very pleasant surprise and good for our friends who went with us because they didn’t have to listen to me grumble about wasting my money ad naseaum.Â

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Beautiful, poignant, sensitive, thought provoking,  horrific, sickening, tragic and stunning.

See it and wonder at the people of this world.

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My mother is 87 and has a steel trap mind.  She’s 100% all there in mind….body, not so good and that’s important to know because of what I’m going to tell you.  She has macular degeneration and only has about 10% of vision left in one eye.  Several months ago she mentioned that she was seeing piles of sticks and strange faces with big red lips (you know, the kind we used to get made out of wax) and she had even seen a ’short movie clip’ of a 1940’s car driving through the snow at night, with snow falling and heading towards a small town.  She said it was a beautiful scene. 

The first thing I thought was that somebody in their communal kitchen was spiking the food with an illicit drug giving her hallucinations.  But before I made any accusations, I made an appointment for her with the eye doctor and told her to tell him about these visions.

Here’s the amazing part!  The doctor told her that some few people who have macular do see these visions and that it would not be wise to discuss it with people that didn’t know her well as they might tend to think she was slipping a little off her rocker.   Since that time, she has seen many other realistic ‘visions’ - sometimes a lifesize woman dressed in clothing from the 1800’s holding the hand of a small boy is standing next to her bed when she wakes up.  Sometimes two young boys also garbed from the 1800’s are there.   And others that I won’t go into here - not one of them is anyone she knows or has ever known.  But it can make you wonder if these visions, seen by credible people throughout the centuries,  before macular was ever known about, were not the origins of ghosts.  From everything she describes to me they certainly fit the description.

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