I hesitated to watch Struck by Lightening because I am a die hard Gleek (don’t judge me) and I couldn’t imagine Chris Colfer as anything but Kurt Hummel. However, as I sit here sobbing hysterically like a crazy person I can honestly say that this kid is brilliant, brilliant, brilliant. I cannot stress this enough. I have never in my life cried over a movie. Not ever. I’ve teared up and gotten sad but this movie just broke my heart.
It occurred to me while watching this how much we use sarcasm to hide from the things that hurt us. This movie was so funny in the beginning that you are actually lured in to thinking that the fact that he dies in the first two minutes of the movie won’t effect you. Anybody who knows what it is like to be at the bottom of the food chain in any school can relate. Maybe even people who don’t know what it is like, can relate.
I’ve never been so emotionally invested in a character in my life. You root for this kid from the beginning because I think on some level everybody knows what it is like to be the outcast. I think I identified with this kid because he had so much to say and so much potential and never got the reward we are all promised for hard work.
It also occurred to me that once somebody is gone, you don’t get to say all the things you wanted to say to them. There is no going back, there is no doing it all over again. My mother is sick and this just really brings it all home for me. I just can’t express how much this movie effected me. I suggest everybody see it because Chris Colfer is a fucking genius but I also suggest you bring a lot of tissues.
On a side note, I think this also brings up what I was saying in my last post about having positive role models and how their sexuality has NOTHING to do with it. Chris Colfer has always spoken out about being gay. How that detracts from the fact that at the age of 23 he is a bestselling author of three books, a brilliant actor, producer and screenplay writer and that he has a voice that only a handful of people in the world possess. Oh yeah, and also helps out a number of charities. As far as life goes, this kid just might have been struck by lightening. Talent like this doesn’t come along very often. Does him being gay somehow detract from the fact that he is brilliant. That is ridiculous. As far as I’m concerned, if the world had more Chris Colfers and less Kardashians we would all be the better for it.
Please excuse any spelling errors as I am still crying like an idiot and probably ranting like one too.
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