We saw Seven Pounds with Norma and Starlee last night…I admit I was really lost and kept asking Norma (on my right) and Deb (on my left) what the heck was going on. I mean, you learn to trust the director and the writers that you’ll have the information you need when you need to need it in order to get the most out of a movie, but last night I needed to trust only Starlee…she figured out what we needed to know and passed it along via Norma. And she sang a lot of the soundtrack. There was a good love scene, which, of course, was severely lacking in Doubt, but the romance in Seven Pounds still didn’t make it a winner.
If you want romance, stick with the Sound of Music—which was on TV when we got home. We turned on the TV just as the Von Trapp kids were trying to sing without Maria…and then, from off camera comes the sound of Maria returning to them. Well, let me tell you, that moment and the couple of scenes following it are my idea of happy and romance. I’m talking Maria and the Captain in the evening gazebo singing “here you are, standing there, loving me—whether or not you should—but somewhere in my youth or childhood, I must have done something good.” These days, I turn it off after “How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria?” and the wedding in the Abbey.
