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Saturday, June 23, 2012

Moonrise Kingdom Offers Many Insights to Real Life Issues

I recently saw the new movie, Moonrise Kingdom, featuring Bill Murray and Bruce Willis. It's a funny plot involving two twelve-year olds who fall in love, make a secret pact to escape their boring lives, and run away into the wilderness of their beautiful summer island which is reminiscent of New England or the Puget Sound. As confused authorities and a troop of misguided boy scouts try to find them, the peaceful island community is turned upside down in more ways than anyone can imagine. It's a witty story about the underlying meaning of love, adult insanity, and the complexities of life even on a sparsely populated island. I think one moral of the story is this. No matter how far we try to run from reality and life's dramas, they always seems to be waiting for just around the bend. Let me know what you think.