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. Wh...