I just finished watching The Upside of Anger, as the credit music plays in the background I’m still unsure of whether or not I even liked the movie. I do know … it’s one of those that leaves you thinking. Either way this quote from the end is certainly worth sharing:
Anger and resentment can stop you in your tracks. That’s what I know now. It needs nothing to burn but the air and the life that it swallows and smothers. It’s real, though – the fury, even when it isn’t. It can change you… turn you… mold you and shape you into something you’re not. The only upside to anger, then… is the person you become. Hopefully someone that wakes up one day and realizes they’re not afraid to take the journey, someone that knows that the truth is, at best, a partially told story. That anger, like growth, comes in spurts and fits, and in its wake, leaves a new chance at acceptance, and the promise of calm. Then again, what do I know? I’m only a child.
I caught this movie on TV last weekend and feel the same way…I think I liked it, maybe?