Top Ten lists are pretty pointless. Whether it’s a respected artist detailing their favorites in their profession, an academic listing the most influential works in their field, or simply a phantatic with a blog ranting, it is impossible to reach a definite, objective top ten list in anything. Ironically, there was a list, a top 100 list in fact, that changed my life. I watched the American Film Institute Top 100 Tenth Anniversary list on T.V. when I was twelve upstairs on a Friday night with my older sister. I don’t know what it was but I remember seeing commercials for it for about a month and every time I saw it I desperately wanted to watch it. I don’t know if it was because of the dozens of VHS’s my family owned and the hundreds of hours I had watched those movies growing up. I’d like to think it was a calling from God to spread my love of film to others but that might be a stretch. I had never really seen many of the movies on the list but somehow as ...
It’s not so much what you believe in but how you live your beliefs that matter.