Favorite Sound Track of The Big Chill

The Big Chill by Lawrence Kasdan is about reminisence of youth and fear of present in my top favorite film list. It foretells what we will ultimately be like when we are in our 30s. The plot goes like this: Seven baby boomers are brought together by the fenural of their best college friend, Alex. Alex who commited suicide, was once the most standout of them at college. At the fenural, one of the seven played Alex's favorite song "You cann't always get what you want" to in memory of him which was originally performed by The Rolling Stones. And the song is what happened to them when these hippies in the 1960s became the yappies in the 1980s. They turned to adulthood, consumerhood, parenthood, drunkenhood, adulteryhood and regrethood. In some sense, Alex died for all of them. Their ship of life has already been sheered far away from the innocent ideality. Now I will be out of college soon and I am always wondering, who I am, why I am here and in which direction I will go. At the time of the next reunion, will I regret I haven't got what I want? The movie offers no solution. While I think the answer is definitely yes. For most of us, life is destined to one kind. To quote from The Great Gatsby: so we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.