Daily Dialogue — August 7, 2014

“I remember wrenching the steering wheel to the right and slapping my foot against the brake petal. I wasn’t the driver anymore. The bus was like this huge wave about to break over us. Bear Otto, the Lambston kids, the Hamiltons, the Prescotts, the teenaged boys and girls from Bartlett Hill Road, Pete, Suzy, Laura, Rick, Sean Walker, Nicole Burnell, Billy Ansel’s twins, Jessica and Mason… all the children of my town.”

— The Sweet Hereafter (1997), screenplay by Atom Egoyan, book by Russell Banks

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Grief.

Trivia: Was inspired by the 1989 school bus crash in Alton, Texas.

Dialogue On Dialogue: Perhaps no more helpless feeling of grief than that of someone who survives a tragedy, especially if they are complicit in the death of others. Such is the case of the bus driver whose testimony is reflected in the dialogue above.

This movie is a real gut check with multiple layers of emotion running through it. A must-see for indie film fans.

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