A Life in a Flash |
Right before you die, your life supposedly flashes before your eyes like an extended version of a Bar Mitzvah montage, with Green Day’s “Time of Your Life” playing in the background.
I’ve often wondered what that flash would look like. Does it start with the day you were born and move forward chronologically? Or does it do a Benjamin Button and go in reverse? Does it follow a narrative arc, or is it just random moments in time? And how does our mind shoehorn an entire life in a flash when it takes more than three hours to watch any Oscar-worthy biopic?
One thing I know for sure is that we’ve all seen countless cuts of our child’s movie. It’s usually a midnight show or thereabouts, and despite the situations in which we know there’s no possibility of a happy ending, we can’t take our eyes off the screen. We can recite every line of dialogue, and we know every set and location of every scene, and even though it breaks our hearts, we can’t stop watching it over and over again.
Frankly, I’ve had enough of these late-show tearjerkers, and maybe you have too. These days, playing........