Framed in film forever

Sometimes, it's a scene. Sometimes, it's a line of dialogue, or just a
single shot.
Sometimes, it can even be a whole film.

There is something in a movie that grabs hold of a person in a way
that's highly personal and completely unexpected.

It could be a scene that shows us a kind of life we could imagine
ourselves living, or a feeling that somehow the filmmaker has journeyed
to a place in his or her imagination that we've journeyed to ourselves.

There is no predicting what in a movie will uniquely move us. It just
happens - and marks us forever.



"Stand By ME" to me still stands as the classic coming-of-age story.

It's a magical journey back to youth and the fun adventures you'd have
as a kid. Not to mention the bonds you develop with your closest
childhood friends. The movie takes place in the 1950's where a group of
friends decide to go on an overnight adventure to find the dead body of
a boy who was hit and killed by a train.

During their journey, the young lads have a few of their own scary
encounters. The young guys are all played very realisticly by Wil
Wheaton, River Phoenix, Corey Feldman, and the incredibly slimmed down
Jerry 'O' Connell. Along the way, they encounter the town bully, played
wonderfully by Kiefer Sutherland.

It's a special movie that will rekindle fond memories of your own
childhood. Most people might not have gone on such a big and odd journey
as these guys, but I'm sure almost anybody can relate to that special
time in life.

When I was growing up in the Mining town of Kitwe, my friends and I made
a similar trek to the Mining Waste Dumps when we heard that a missing
person's body was found.