this is how a heart breaks

jules and i checked out Elizabethtown today, wow. heartbreakingly good is the best way to describe it. it's the kind of movie that sticks with you long after you've left the darkness of the theater behind you. driving down the road, thinking of a scene and smiling, you realize how much the movie really got to you. i loved the way it ended. the scrapbook, the driving mixes. i wanted all of that to be real, i wanted to hold them in my hand. i knew going in that it had the potential to make us both tear up, a movie about the death of a father and all. but i wasn't expecting to have to bite down on my lower lip in an effort to keep from sobbing. the flashbacks were the hardest, she cried and i finally gave in and let a tear or two fall down my face. touching, sweet, quirky, genuine and honest. i wanted to see it again the second it ended, just to watch their relationship unfold a second time.

i loved this movie.