Morrie, son of a Russian immigrant who was unable to give or receive love, lost his mother early to some disease, but lucked out with his stepmother a year later.
He clung to and thrived on the selfless love she bestowed on him, saving his young life so that he could go on to teach young people how to live...and in the end how to die by living.
It is never specified in this 2000 movie (or book that I recall and I updated my review of it today as it was my very first epinion) what subject Morrie taught at Brandeis University, but I would guess Sociology or perhaps Poetry since he loved the W.H. Auden poem September 1, 1939.
While backing out of the campus parking lot to go home one day in the summer of 1994, spry, lovable, seventy-seven year old Morrie suddenly has Lou Gehrig Disease attack his legs and his car crashes into the fence behind him as his legs remain inert.
The disease begins with his legs, but gradually it will travel up his body suffocating his organs until he dies. There doesn't seem to be a cure at all.
Since I read and reviewed the book version, I can compare it with the movie and the movie was a lot more satisfying for me.
Mitch Albom didn't write the book badly (it's an Oprah Winfrey book and movie, after all!), but he is simply a sportswriter who writes from a man's perspective.
The movie was cowritten by him and Thomas Rickman; therefore, Janine and Morrie's loving wife have characters that are fleshed out a bit more, in my opinion.
They have become more than characters from the sidelines to fit into the story as in the book, but inspiring, charismatic presences to cherish.
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2008ǯ0429 11:31
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