Meet Joe Black

I've only just finished watching Meet Joe Black.
Have always wanted to watch this movie because I've heard about it a lot and also heard that Brad Pitt is absolutely gorgeous in this movie ( they weren't wrong- he was superlicious)

Anthony Hopkins plays Bill, a media mogul whose time is almost up. however, the circumstances of his death are a bit different than the usual ones. Death visits him, in the form if a young man called Joe Black ( Brad Pitt, of course) and tells him that in return for more time, he would like Bill to show him around. In other words, to be put most ironically, Death wants Bill to show him how to live. Eve and I were saying how ironic the whole idea was, Death wanting to know about living life.

And then comes the weirder part where DEath falls in love with Bill's daughter!

But the whole point of this movie ( I think) is to show us how wonderful and special life is and how we should always appreciate it. Even the little things. Even peanut butter. All the little wonders and miracles of our daily lives are seen as wondrous, magical occurences through Joe Black's eyes, who has never been alive in this world. We take peanut butter for granted, that sweet, salty taste. But not Joe Black. He has his first taste of peanut butter and instantly falls in love with it. And at dinnertime when they are serving caviar, he declines, and requests just peanut butter. I found that scene funny, and honest.

There was also this quote from the movie, where Bill is explaining to his daughter why he doesn't think the man she is dating now is the man she wants to marry, the man she loves.
I really like it.

"Love is passion, obsession, someone you can't live without. If you don't start with that, what are you going to end up with? Fall head over heels. I say find someone you can love like crazy and who'll love you the same way back. And how do you find him? Forget your head and listen to your heart. I'm not hearing any heart. Run the risk, if you get hurt, you'll come back. Because, the truth is there is no sense living your life without this. To make the journey and not fall deeply in love - well, you haven't lived a life at all. You have to try. Because if you haven't tried, you haven't lived."

All in all, this was a great movie, and I loved it. Of course, the soundtrack by Thomas Newman was amazing too... I'll be downloading it now XD