One of my favorite
movies is (500) Days of Summer starring
Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Zooey Deschanel. I’ve watched this movie many times
and discussed it again and again with Boomer. It is a heartbreaking and painful
movie to watch and yet, I still watch it.
In one of the later
scenes, Summer, the Zooey Deschanel character, says something like, “I was
sitting in a deli reading Dorian Gray.” Ever since I’ve heard that line, I’ve
been meaning to read The Picture of
Dorian Gray. So for the 2015 Modern Mrs. Darcy Reading Challenge category
of “a book you’ve been meaning to read,” this was the perfect choice.
Dorian Gray is a
handsome and dashing young man who sells his soul in order to stay young
forever. As he stays youthful and everyone else around him ages, an oil
painting of him also ages and depicts his moral decline.
This was a spooky and
strange book. I can see why it attracted interest to Summer in 500 Days of Summer as she sat reading it
in a deli.
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