ONCE In A While You'll Watch A Great Movie (Mediation 2)

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"How often to do you meet the right person?"

Last weekend I had the privilege of watching the movie Once. Once is a modern-day musical about a struggling guitarist, who works at his fathers Hoover Vacuum repair shop, and an immigrant and their eventful week in Dublin, as they write, record and rehearse songs that tell their story.

Now, this may make Once seem like a sappy love story, but it is not. It is much more than that.Once has this strange, but beautiful raw quality; the camera shots are off center, busses pass through speaking scenes, and the dialogue is short and to the point. This is the essential make-up of a Sundance Film Festival film.

The beautiful quality of Once isn't in the acting or directing per-say, even though the acting and directing were superb. The beautiful quality is within the music.

I have here a song from the movie:

"Falling Slowly" is the essential "love" song in the movie, but you don't even truly mind because it is such a beautiful song. Granted, I am not one that goes head over heals for romantic-comedies, but the difference is this isn't a romantic comedy. It's more of a romantic-drama. I cannot express how wonderful this movie was and what the music did to my limbic brain. The soundtrack is just amazing, and I recommend watching this movie if you haven't, and then I recommend buying the soundtrack because the music is worth listening too on a daily basis.

Once was written and directed by John Carney and stared Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova.Once won an Oscar in 2008 for "Best Original Song: Falling Slowly " and also won many other awards in various independent film festivals, including The Sundance Film Festival.