Tonight I watched the movie Martian Child, starring John Cusack and Bobby Coleman. It's a sweet story, without being corny, about a lonely widower and best selling Sci-Fi author, David (John Cusack), who adopts a child who lives in a world of his own. The child, Dennis (Bobby Coleman), is rather strange — he hates the sun, doesn't smile much, and has convinced himself that he's from Mars. At first the writer isn't sure he's up to the task of bringing up a child with such big issues, but little by little comes to realize he's the perfect match for the boy.
One of my favorite quotes in the movie is when David says this:
"Dennis, can I just say one last thing about Mars? - which may be strange coming from a Science-Fiction writer - But right now, you and me here, put together entirely of atoms, sitting on this round rock with a core of liquid iron, held down by this force that seems to trouble you, called gravity, all the while spinning around the sun at 67,000 miles an hour and whizzing through the milkyway at 600,000 miles an hour in a universe that very well may be chasing its own tail at the speed of light; And admist all this frantic activity, fully cognisant of our own eminent demise - which is our own pretty way of saying we all know we're gonna die - We reach out to one another. Sometimes for the sake of entity, sometimes for reasons you're not old enough to understand yet, but a lot of the time we just reach out and expect nothing in return. Isn't that strange? Isn't that weird? Isn't that weird enough? What do ya need to be from Mars for?"
Rather reminds me of the old Dr. Seuss quote:
"We are all a little weird and life's a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love."
I found myself smiling and laughing throughout most of this movie. Certainly a must-see on the power of unconditional love.
One of my favorite quotes in the movie is when David says this:
"Dennis, can I just say one last thing about Mars? - which may be strange coming from a Science-Fiction writer - But right now, you and me here, put together entirely of atoms, sitting on this round rock with a core of liquid iron, held down by this force that seems to trouble you, called gravity, all the while spinning around the sun at 67,000 miles an hour and whizzing through the milkyway at 600,000 miles an hour in a universe that very well may be chasing its own tail at the speed of light; And admist all this frantic activity, fully cognisant of our own eminent demise - which is our own pretty way of saying we all know we're gonna die - We reach out to one another. Sometimes for the sake of entity, sometimes for reasons you're not old enough to understand yet, but a lot of the time we just reach out and expect nothing in return. Isn't that strange? Isn't that weird? Isn't that weird enough? What do ya need to be from Mars for?"
Rather reminds me of the old Dr. Seuss quote:
"We are all a little weird and life's a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love."
I found myself smiling and laughing throughout most of this movie. Certainly a must-see on the power of unconditional love.
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