Keep breathing

"We both had done the math. Kelly added it all up and... knew she had to let me go. I added it up, and knew that I had... lost her. 'cos I was never gonna get off that island. I was gonna die there, totally alone. I was gonna get sick, or get injured or something. The only choice I had, the only thing I could control was when, and how, and where it was going to happen. So... I made a rope and I went up to the summit, to hang myself. I had to test it, you know? Of course. You know me. And the weight of the log, snapped the limb of the tree, so I-I - , I couldn't even kill myself the way I wanted to. I had power over *nothing*. And that's when this feeling came over me like a warm blanket. I knew, somehow, that I had to stay alive. Somehow. I had to keep breathing. Even though there was no reason to hope. And all my logic said that I would never see this place again. So that's what I did. I stayed alive. I kept breathing. And one day my logic was proven all wrong because the tide came in, and gave me a sail. And now, here I am. I'm back. In Memphis, talking to you. I have ice in my glass... And I've lost her all over again. I'm so sad that I don't have Kelly. But I'm so grateful that she was with me on that island. And I know what I have to do now. I gotta keep breathing. Because tomorrow the sun will rise. Who knows what the tide could bring?"

A Christmas Carol

Che Natale sarebbe stato se Charles Dickens non ci avesse mai lasciato la sua" Christmas Carol"?Non conosceremo mai la risposta a questa domanda , ma di certo molti cuori sarebbero rimasti freddi e incapaci di redimersi , perchè la magia incredibile di questo racconto, la sua capacità di viaggiare attraverso la crudeltà di un animo indurito dal denaro e dalla cupidigia verso il perdono e la redenzione , è unica al mondo e incapace di "passare di moda" , più che mai nella nostra realtà dove denaro e tecnologie rendono freddi i cuori e ci allontanano dal calore degli affetti . Ben venga dunque ,un'ennesima versione del capolavoro di Dickens ;così Robert Zemeckis , regista di grande talento e precursore di tecniche cinematografiche innovative ,ci regala l'adattamento più visionario ma allo stesso tempo più fedele all'originale di quanto non lo sia stata ogni altra precedente interpretazione.