Life Cycles – The Movie

The venue was plush. I wasn’t expecting too much when I sat down in the seat for two with a holder for my coffee cup. But I was relaxed.

Once the grandiose HD Life Cycles movie began I had to resort to blindly writing my notes. I couldn’t dare take my eyes off the screen.

The narrator’s words immediately clung to my soul. Married with the high definition artistic portrayals of the manufacturing of a bicycle to start things off - I was completely captivated.

It was unimaginable for me that I could go to a bike movie – a bazillion of which I’ve seen on my son’s computer over the years – and be brought to groundswell of tears. How so?
There was a mingling of intensity shed on the story of life, sidelined with the great outdoors and of course a bicycle.

Human power. Capable of greater good.

The iconic pictures your mind dances with when the voice pitches in with “…mystery of what lay around the bend…” had me rattled. Honestly I got a rush.

“The bicycle our noblest of inventions…” okay.

I felt the rhythm. The visuals, the eye candy, the words, the music.

It all tugged at my heart strings. Truly a film with spirit.

Also purpose, flow, joy, interaction and instinct. It delivers balance. A bike and life. Intertwined with the sound of the chainsaw or the ching of a pedal to the medal. Take your pick. There’s the wheels of change. Construction, destruction then creation.

I loved the lines; “Bicycles are powered by the human motor,” and then the “Forces that aim to take it all away.”

What did I take away I think to myself as I amble out of the theatre with my son who claimed, “Awesome.”

It’s what I did today. I saw it, I felt it and I lived it.

Like the movie said - Life Cycles. It never ends.

N.B. Can hardly wait to own my own copy.