Wanting to be elsewhere.
Twister (1996) is one of my favorite movies. I don’t know why. Maybe because when I was a kid the whole thing seemed so exciting (and scary). And after more than a decade, it still keeps me on the edge of my seat.
I caught it on HBO last week, and I couldn’t stop watching. I was supposed to be doing something at the time, since I got home early. But I was hooked to the tube.
Lately my life has been so twisted, I kind of wish I could just disappear and be somewhere else. Somewhere better. Watching Twister last week made me forget where I am. It made me remember where I was, 12 or so years ago, watching Twister for the first time and feeling like I’d get sucked up in the tornado–because the visual effects were so good, it made me feel like it was real.
My favorite lines include the following:
Bill: Jo. Things go wrong. You can’t explain it, you can’t predict it. Killing yourself won’t bring your dad back. I’m sorry that he died, but that was a long time ago. You gotta move on. Stop living in the past, and look what you got right in front of you.
Jo: What are you talking about?
Bill: Me, Jo.
Aunt Meg: He didn’t keep his part of the bargain, did he?
Jo: Which part?
Aunt Meg: To spend his life pining for you, and die miserable and alone.
Jo: Is that too much to ask?
Dusty: He strolls up to the twister, and he says, *have a drink*. And he chucks the bottle into the twister, and it never hits the ground.
Source: IMDB
