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Dancer, Texas Pop. 81 (1998)
Hey, I didn't give anyone permission to write a movie about me.
This movie was a like a trip back home for me. I grew up in West Texas, and I always knew in that process that I would one day leave it. By no plan or design, somehow it happened, in many stages. Ultimately, where did I find myself? In California, of course.
Now looking back with the help of this movie, I see the simple good of the life I lived back then, when life was slow, plodding even, but placid and enjoyable.
Dancer, Texas Pop. 81 provides a window back in time to the life we used to be able to live. I especially enjoyed the halting conversation between the two ranchers, a conversation of one and two word sentences. These two were so tuned into one-another that they needed very few words to express their ideas, thoughts, and concerns. People should be more like that today.
Coneheads (1993)
The movie that has become an analogy
While you may think that this is a silly concept; Aliens crash land on earth, adapt to the culture, and eventually succeed and prosper, all the while averting capture and deportation by diligent and determined civil serpents of the renowned INS, only to be suddenly rescued by their own kind and returned to their home planet where Beldar is tried and convicted for losing his space ship.
Alas, all is not for naught. Using his obviously over-sized brain, Beldar "successfully knarfles the Garthok", using the things he learned and the skills he picked up on earth.
In this story there is a life lesson: no matter how difficult the project, how dark the hour, or how vocal one's detractors, one can overcome by putting the old noodle to work and meeting the challenge head-on, just as Beldar did.