Take Me Home Please

It's very rare that a movie speaks to me, much less a comedy. I should hate to admit it but the nearly straight to DVD movie Take Me Home Tonight actually shook me. I watched it 2 days ago and I'm still thinking about it. The reason this movie rocked me is because my life and Matt Franklin (Topher Grace) is strikingly similar.

Synopsis: You have this intelligent college grad who doesn't know what he wants to do with his life so he works at a video rental store until he can figure it out. One day his high school crush walks in and he pretends to not work there, and he also in a moment of despair lies about where he works to give the impression he is successful. He is invited to a party that night where he tries to act cool and successful. He finally gets the girl, decides to tell her the truth, and then she gets furious he has lied (typical). He comes to a breaking point where he realizes he has never tried anything, and decides to do something. That something clearly is rolling down a hill in a big metal ball. In the end he realizes he has to go for things/anything and he gets the girl.

This is Matt's reason for not doing anything: "Whatever you do, it’s what you’re gonna be. And I just don’t know what I wanna be. Yet." Sounds really familiar...

When I started to think of how this is my life, I was wondering what would happen if I went to a party of high school comrades? I would be awfully tempted to also lie or embellish on what I do. Which circles me back to the fact that I'm not doing what I'm capable of, or even what I want.

There is this beautiful scene where Matt is found in a stolen, wrecked car and his friend is covered in cocaine. To top it off his cop dad is the one who finds him. In the midst of fighting and yelling Matt screams, "I'm sorry I'm such a failure". The dad replies with something along the lines of, "You are much worse than a failure because you have never tried."

Bam - smack in the face.

So while pondering the movie, I run into this the next morning -
By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, even though he did not know where he was going. Hebrews 11:8

Bam again.

Abraham went (he moved, he did, he tried, he became, he changed) and he didn't know where he was going (he didn't know the career, life path, job he wanted). He went.

Moral of the story: I need to go, do, try, change, become, live.