On "What Is Life?"

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"Moonstruck" (1987) unfolds in a deliberately over-dramatized narrative. This particular scene questions the futility & mundanity that is everyday Life (entwined with the events that led to this point in the story). The display of existential exasperation is perfection. It is delivered in a way that's both absurd and spectacular - resonating somewhat ubiquitously and hilariously through the ages. It is our family's absolute favourite movie and scene 😂.



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  1. JaxNovember 15, 2019 at 11:55 AM

    I've often heard this movie referenced when comparing it to my family since we are off the boat Sicilians that settled in Brooklyn to later migrate to Long Island. Despite the references, I absolutely REFUSE to watch this movie because of Nicholas Cage. I don't dislike many people in the world, but he annoys the crap out of me for absolutely zero legitimate reasons.

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    1. AzNovember 17, 2019 at 10:38 AM

      It's pretty good Jax - and this was Nic Cage before he became "Nicolas Cage" so it's a tad bit more bearable.

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    2. JaxNovember 18, 2019 at 9:53 AM

      There was a time before his was Nicolas Cage? I didn't realize that others didn't like him either. I feel a little more justified now!

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  2. Mary KirklandNovember 15, 2019 at 1:06 PM

    I know I've seen the movie a long time ago, but I hardly remember it at all.

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  3. DEZMONDNovember 15, 2019 at 1:12 PM

    Funny how Cher looks better thirty years after :) And those were the times when most of the world still did not find Cage ridiculous as they do now.

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    1. AzNovember 17, 2019 at 10:41 AM

      Exactly Dezmond. I always say it was before he became "Nicolas Cage".

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  4. Pat HattNovember 15, 2019 at 2:13 PM

    Cage, before he was super ridiculous yet still ridiculous. Life is mundane. Unless you're rich and retired, always the mundane.

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    1. AzNovember 17, 2019 at 10:42 AM

      I think I'd prefer mundane if it came with a mountain of usable/valuable cash.

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  5. Mildred Ratched November 16, 2019 at 3:21 AM

    I'll marry you! We'll have strange little maladjusted children together and we can argue and throw things at each other, but the best part will be when we make up and gaze into each others eyes lovingly and know it's all just a dream and nothing about life is real after all.

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  6. Magaly GuerreroNovember 16, 2019 at 9:29 AM

    I'm slightly ashamed to confess that I've never watched it. But the idea of a nice nose of existential exasperation sure makes it appealing. So, I might give it a go.

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    1. AzNovember 17, 2019 at 10:43 AM

      It's worth the watch Magaly - if anything, for the comedy.

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  7. TruedessaNovember 16, 2019 at 9:45 AM

    Love is: explained in this bizarre scene. Get into my bed...

    https://youtu.be/k7WkN_gPNaM

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    1. Blue GrumpsterNovember 16, 2019 at 9:54 AM

      "We are here to ruin ourselves and to break our hearts, and love the wrong people and DIE!.... Now I want you to come upstairs with me and GET in my bed!!!!!"

      Love that scene. Call me blue but I think what he says is true.

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    2. TruedessaNovember 16, 2019 at 3:46 PM

      ha - It's a great scene and I do think we break our own hearts because we love the wrong people but, perhaps it is the flaws in ourselves that make us fall for another with flaws. Maybe, just maybe, it's empathy that that makes us feel and connect. Call it combustive
      love or something, I don't really know Blue, color me indigo.

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    3. AzNovember 17, 2019 at 10:45 AM

      I love that scene too - and I know all about loving the wrong people. Maybe that's what makes it so relatable to me. I often grapple with why things have to be so complicated - and I do believe that we are largely to blame for it. I think that will be my next blog :)

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    4. Blue GrumpsterNovember 17, 2019 at 11:02 AM

      That's right: we are to blame. But will this newly acquired perspicacious judgment help us change our ways? (No.)

      Hi Az.

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