Many movies have touched my life filling me with emotions that linger for several hours, days, or even a life time. Vanilla Sky is one movie in which fills you with the hope of finding or experiencing your one soul connecting true love. Your joy is then replaced with the emotion of disappointment and despair due to impulsive decission making followed by repercussions of our consequences. Life is full of tough choices and the splice of life enables another way of playing out what might have been. A question I often ask myself…What if I had never made that decision… or if I would have done that instead… how would the consequences have changed my life??? We all may ask ourselves from time to time… What If???
The Vanilla Skies we have all painted for ourselves may all be questioned and impulsive decision making can have an impact for the rest of our lives. I also enjoyed the undeniable message of chosing life and facing all that life has to offer. It inspires us to believe that no matter how unbearable a situation, life is definitely WORTH LIVING!
Thank you for producing such an amazing film and I am moved and inspired by it. Every time I watch it, I want to make a little change for the good… for it is the “little things…there’s nothing bigger”. Keep on Inspiring us Tom…we do make changes.

Much Love Always,
Dawn Sustek

that the movie which changed my life åsas life the true story lol

love u
creonie@hotmail.com (Åsa Alexamdersson)

The classic film which brought me to the realization that many children like being scared by movies, is the one that initially used to freak the pants off me, THE WIZARD OF OZ. Let us begin with the horrific twister which uprooted Dorothy and Toto, house and all tossing them down in the magically odd land of OZ. From bad witches to talking, apple-tossing trees and flying monkeys it contains a plethora of scary stuff. Most of all it was a story about being ripped from what you know and love, all the people and things that comprise your comfort zone and being on your own for the first time in life. As a child I would sit in front of the television with my sisters and parents to watch the once a year showing of THE WIZARD OF OZ. My sisters and I would cover our eyes with our hands, every now and again stealing glances at the face of the wicked witch as she threatened Dorothy. Man, they made that woman ugly for a reason. Who knew that she had a green face, until we got a color set, not us! Of course the happy ending and its lesson of, “There’s no place like home” made it easy for us to uncover our eyes and breathe a sigh of relief. This movie became a delightfully frightful experience we enjoyed every year, and one we passed onto our children. I mean, what little girl in her right mind didn’t want a pair of ruby slippers, despite the dangers they invited?

So, what did I learn, and how did THE WIZARD OF OZ change my life? I think most children must invite the fear in at a young age, in order to begin the process of moving along in life, despite our fears. I believe it is a part of growing up and becoming an adult. Just perhaps a fraction of it but a very important one. Films like this get us to step along and think outside the box as we should; it did for me. As little ones we are continually offered comfort zones, as good parenting says we should have. However before we know it, those zones are no longer enough and just like Dorothy we must step into the unknown and move along on our own steam. For me, I believe this film provided some of the impetus I needed to put on those ruby slippers and walk forward into adulthood, fear and all.