“Do
you think we're all trying trying to avoid dealing with Alex? You know, every
time it comes up somebody changes the subject.”
“Hey,
it's a dead subject.”
I remember when I was working at Best Buy years ago
seeing the soundtrack for The Big Chill.
I think the soundtrack was reissued for some anniversary of the movie. I can
remember thinking that the movie, based solely off of its poster, looked like it
would be silly and boring yet for some reason I wanted to someday sit through
it. Since the time I first saw the soundtrack for The Big Chill I have had several other jobs and have grown into a
movie buff. I finally got around to seeing the movie and I was right that I would
find it boring.
A group of former college friends reunites at the funeral
of one of their friends named Alex. They all feel guilty that they used to all
be so close and neither one of them knew how Alex was feeling and why he would
want to kill himself.
They all stay at the home of Harold (Kevin Klein) and
Sarah (Glen Close) for a few days. Harold and Sarah have a lot of money and
they have a family. The others are a housewife, a TV show star, a journalist, a
lawyer, a former radio host, and Alex’s girlfriend. They have all come a far
way from where they were in college. Besides Harold and Sarah they are all
unhappy with their lives.
Really, that is all I got out of The Big Chill. I got so bored of it before it was half way in. The
story depressed me and it was not the story of their friend killing himself
that depressed me. It was seeing how miserable these people were in their lives
that depressed me. They had all wanted great things to happen to them and they
just fell flat. I hope and pray all the time that my life does not end up in
the crapper and I constantly feel miserable. The Big Chill was not terrible but it is a movie I do not plan on
ever seeing it again I found it boring beyond what my focus and attention span
could handle. I will say it is worth watching just once.
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