Struck By Lightning

It's been a very long time since I'e written a blog post.  Especially one about a movie.

Struck By Lightning certainly is not a move I had heard of until I found it on Netflix.  But it certainly spoke to me.  It seems to be one of those typical, coming of age teenager angst movies.  But what it really is about is real life.  The protagonist, Carson Philips, gets struck by lightning his senior year of high school and the movie is about his semester leading up to when he died.  He has a mother who is an alcoholic and dependent on prescription drugs and a father who left his family and started a new one simply because he didn't want to deal with them anymore.  Carson is an outcast in high school and ends up blackmailing other students into participating in a Literary Magazine so that he can better his chances to get into his dream college.

This movie really spoke to me because Carson has been dealt a lot of shit in his short 17 years of life.  While I can not say that I understand everything he went through, I do certainly know some of it.  I was an outcast in high school myself and have been dealt my fair share of trials over my 25 years of life.  But this movie is real.  This movie shows what it is like to deal with unfavourable situations.  There is no sugar-coating in this film.  The cast is phenominal as well.  The preppy cheerleaders, the outcasts, the deadbeat parents, the ridiculous school system....  All of those things that every single person experiences in their life, they can see here in this film.  Even if you were on the other side of it, this film gives you a great view of what it was like to be the other person.

The major thing that this film does is also help to reinforce an idea that I have always reminded others of - everyone is fighting their own battles.  I can't say that anyone will learn anything from this film or should.  People can take it as it, but it yet another amazing piece done by Chris Colfer, who portrays Carson Philips, and they should at least appreciate it and take a moment to consider what others go through in life before they judge or force anything else upon them.

So, until next time--