The movie that rendered me comatose for five minutes

I finally did it. I watched Sophie's Choice. Yes, I was hesitant; I’d been sucker punched before by movies so hyped up for years and years but once I'd sat down to watch them all I could think was "er, that's it?” (yes, I’m talking to you, Taxi Driver). So I started off with much trepidation. but dear unknown deity and all things holy what a mind blowing, gut wrenching, smile inducing, tear jerking, sublime creative genius it turned out to be. Oh, I’m not going to recap/review or even re-watch it. I’ll die if I had to watch it again. But talk about putting things in perspective. See somehow, I’d managed to survive decades on the internet without actually knowing what the ‘choice’ in Sophie’s Choice was. So when that moment came, well, pretty much what’s said in the title of the post happened. There. I’ve said my piece. Now you'll have to excuse me, I need to blow my nose, hug my child and pour myself a drink.

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