tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10890885.post113461742697367002..comments2023-10-20T09:43:39.318-04:00Comments on Frumpter: Understanding the movie "Bee Season"Zoe Strickmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07940789852735669214noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10890885.post-66128565369859373452017-11-26T13:31:34.135-05:002017-11-26T13:31:34.135-05:00I just saw the movie and I think that you have put...I just saw the movie and I think that you have put it absolutely correctly that we don't have to necessarily use all the gifts that g-d has given us as sometimes if we don't use them correctly then we may harm not only ourselves but also others. <br />Also, I think the girl did something very brave by throwing away the championship as she brought her family back together. <br />Thank you for summarizing the movie so brilliantly. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10890885.post-39607509285496986322017-05-29T04:53:09.222-04:002017-05-29T04:53:09.222-04:00I read the book and haven't seen the movie. My...I read the book and haven't seen the movie. My took on it was that mother was suffering from schizophrenia and daughter was on her way too. Didn't see a god in it. I'm quite baffled by these comments. I'll try to get my hands on the movie to see if they've changed it much.Saarahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07171103050649623710noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10890885.post-3609227665422441122013-12-20T12:10:45.369-05:002013-12-20T12:10:45.369-05:00Now, many years later, I could say that I too was ...Now, many years later, I could say that I too was affected by the Bee Season movie (and still am).<br /><br />I picked up an electric piano yesterday and started singing niggunim (spiritual tunes), while a new website ("Chordify") told me which cords to play. It was very cathartic, especially since my singing voice has been a gift from G-d which I have not used since I became religious. I have no interest in using it for religious purposes, and I don't want to be a show-off, so I don't use it at all.<br /><br />That being said, the kids and my wife enjoyed watching and listening to me sing, and in some way, perhaps it inspired them a bit.Zoe Strickmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07940789852735669214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10890885.post-4781530164390061312013-12-07T08:37:11.402-05:002013-12-07T08:37:11.402-05:00I just saw the last quarter of the movie when I fo...I just saw the last quarter of the movie when I found it on Showtime this morning (around 5 am, and on a sidenote, this is Shabbot, the day of the Jewish sabbath, of which it is forbidden to turn on a t.v., much less anything else electrical). It's eight years after you wrote your synopsis POV of this movie, which I found on Google. I counter your understanding that we should not always use our gifts. Why else would G-D give us these gifts? We should not stifle the gifts given us through G-D unless of course it would harm someone. In the case here in the movie, it was noble of the girl to lose the spelling bee if she knew winning it would harm her family. The point of using our gifts is to do Good...(and you see the name of G-d is in the word Good...however the transmutations only make sense in the language Hebrew, which is a mistake in the movie, and a metaphor which I use in "jest".) I believe every person of every religion and even of no religion is capable of reaching a holy (if you can call it that) type of revelation and accordingly, act Good. ... but only sometimes. No person acts good always. And some people misuse their "powers". Humans have egos. It is important to realize the person in the movie who chose not to use her "gift" was a child, which is special, as Jesus stated we need to be children or "child-like" to enter the kingdom of Heaven. And the Kingdom is inside of us, folks, not where the birds fly. Indigohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18119168610807544725noreply@blogger.com