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Tuesday, January 22, 2008

The Note (2007) (TV)

I watched this yesterday, and it's pretty good for a touching made-for-TV movie. A plane crashes, and in the seconds before death, one passenger writes a note to his son or daughter. A writer with an ailing column finds the note, and writes about her quest to track down the intended recipient. The story is about love, death, and forgiveness.

One thing I didn't really like was how tacky it seemed for the writer, a woman, to not think twice about using the note and the relatives of the crash victims as tools to resuscitate her column. But the movie never really overtly covered the possibility that what she was doing was wrong. In fact, she at one point asked how a competing journalist, a TV news guy, could be so bold as to shove a microphone in someone's face right after they lost a loved one. Her point seemed to be that it is inappropriate to exploit others for your own professional gain, and yet it feels like that's exactly what she did.

But if you can look past that, and you're in the mood for an emotional mystery, this movie could be worth watching.

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