©by Patricia Feager 6/17/2016
Genius, a movie starring Jude Law, Colin Firth, and Nicole Kidman, is a story about Thomas Wolfe, an American Writer, born in Ashville, North Carolina. It's an autobiography of a man who possesses the gift of imagination and language but can't stop writing long manuscripts, working endless hours, neglecting his wife to perfect his work to get published, only to exhaust everyone else in his path, especially his wife, played by Nicole Kidman. After many rejections, he finally finds an Editor, starring Colin Firth, who helps him to get published but cutting words down to size to get his first novel and others published is no easy task.
There are many adjectives used in the movie that may resonate with Real Estate Agents, such as: gut feeling, in search of a better life, drive, determination, and rejection. In addition, there is that need to be on the road, to explore other opportunities, as well.
Thomas Wolfe's first published novel is "Look Homeward, Angel." It's the beginning of a young man's thirst for a better life in the year 1929 and making real life choices. The author and character is determined to succeed with constant editing, imposed upon him by his Editor. Success is never enough and he must get started on his second novel, "Of Time and the River." You could almost smell the industrial age's timeless sweat, and empathize with the sacrifices people made to make a buck, especially those in Publisher Houses with Secretaries, deciphering sloppy handwriting while banging away on those old manual typewriters. There was no Computers, smart phones, spell check, air conditioning as we know it today, or even Liquid Paper. History buffs will recall that the Recession began in August, 1929, two months before the Stock Market Crash, all this American history coupled with vivid characters in real life situations, with the hope of one man's dream, with the competition of his day, will surely engage the audience - at least that was true for me!
It's the story about ambition, an appetite for success, and the need to be yourself, perfect, in an imperfect world where others don't see the world as you see it and time is of the essence with drop dead deadlines that leaves people intensely wondering, how much further can one man go to succeed in a world that is constantly changing?
I'm sure you've heard it many times before, "What doesn't kill you makes you stronger." The film will leave you thinking about your own mortality and how much of yourself should you throw into your own work... or will you leave the theater asking yourself, whose work is it after-all and was all that time worth it for the price of success? I give this movie a gold star review!
©from the heart & viewpoint of Patricia Feager 6/17/2016.
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