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So I just watched the movie Parked…

After crying my eyes out, well, I got to thinking about a few things. Everyone should watch this movie. I had no idea what I was in for when I decided to watch this, I just knew there was Colin Morgan, my slight obsession celebrity crush at the moment was in it, and there were Irish accents, and well, I was sold. I didn’t expect this to be so profoundly moving. It’s easy to tell that this film is very low-budget, but it’s so good. If you have the patience for listening very carefully to really thick Irish accents, it’s definitely worth the 1 hr and 30 minutes. Colin Morgan plays a young drug addict who lives in his car and befriends a man named Fred who also lives in his car in the same parking lot that Cathal lives at.

Secondly, after watching Cathal (Colin Morgan’s character) succumb over and over to his drug addiction, even lying about it, I got to thinking about the people I met who are drug addicted. They are my age, one of them older, and they are all broken. Sleeper, Roach, Julie…all of them are beautiful people who are blanketed by the horrors of addictions. The quote above is really beautiful (albeit Cathal was probably high when he said it…but that is beside the point) and the people I’ve met are filled with the same beautiful thoughts, sober or not. In the end, unless a person has a desire to better themselves and break the addiction themselves, there is little another person can do for them, no matter how much I they want to.

Watching this movie made me realize that there are many point of views to a single story. I grew angry at the injustice and ignorance of social workers (a field I myself want to one day join) and the coldness of Cathal’s father. I was appreciative of the observance of Fred, and ultimately emotional at the result of it all. Everyone did what was right in their own eyes when it came to the issue of drug addictions and homelessness, but this issue is just so deep and compacted beneath so many layers that it’s hard to see a solution.

I can go on and on, but my thoughts are already in a jumble…

either way…I suggest you watch it.

P.S. Colin Morgan for ALL the best actor awards. Seriously. I hope he gets more famous than he is.

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