Blue Like Jazz the Movie

Life is a journey.

You're right, that's completely cliche, but it’s also true. Not a single one of us has arrived with all the knowledge and the wisdom to live life perfected. Life is messy. People are broken.

I have a lot of friends that I consider very close. There are also others, perhaps greater in number, who I cannot stand to be in the presence of. The one thing we all have in common, however, is that none of us have it all figured out. We’re in the middle of a process.

I had the esteemed privilege tonight, thanks to a good friend, to attend the premier screening of Blue Like Jazz the Movie. I am writing this a mere hour after leaving the theater. The movie is superb in so many ways, I’ll begin by saying that you simply must see it for yourself.

“But Daniel, I’ve seen those hokey Christian movies before and they’re a joke.” I wouldn’t call this a “Christian movie” though. While it deals with many themes surrounding religion and faith, the movie holds up Authenticity as one of the primary themes to the audience.

Whether you consider yourself Christian, Spiritual, Agnostic, Atheist, or none of the above, this movie will draw you in and evoke serious self introspection while doing so in a relaxed, entertaining, fun way. It will reach each person uniquely because each of us is living out a different story with different plotlines. No matter what your belief background, there’s an emptiness inside each of us at some point in our lives where we’re searching for something.

Blue Like Jazz the Movie took me back to that time in my life where I was searching for who I was and where I fit in. It reminded me that others who seem so different from me are actually quite similar to me after all. We’re all just trying to figure this thing out. I’m dragging my life-baggage around with me and they’re doing the same. At certain points in our lives our stories collide oftentimes resulting in either disaster or resolve. It is in these collisions where the dramatic changes take place. Blue Like Jazz the Movie is the story of one of these collisions.

Whether you are single, dating, married, young adult, college-aged, working, unemployed, mid-life, teenage, or the others, make this a must see when it comes out April 13, 2012. You’ll be glad you did. If you have questions or want more info then feel free to contact me and I would love to share more of my story and perhaps hear some of yours.