Songcatcher

A doctor of music, a musicologist by the name of Dr. Lily Penleric gets passed up on a job at the school she is working at so she moves into the mountains with her sister, Eleanor who is a teacher at a school. In her spare time she starts creating musical ballads of the people in the small community who either sing or play an instrument. She has a machine which looks to be an old fashion recorder and the people can sing into it and she will play it back to them so they can hear how they sound. Meanwhile she will write the music down, she put so much time and effort into her work. I overall thought this was a fantastic movie. A few moments that really stuck out for me was when everyone was at the dance and just having a great time and Earl Giddens came in drunk and causing a scene and starts dancing with Lily, Tom Bledsoe gets up and punches him. What surprised me the most was everyone just kept on playing their instruments like nothing happened. This is the moment when you realized that Tom has true feelings for Lily, not just a love/ hate, it was love. It also came out when Lily was running through the woods and runs into Tom and they finally kiss, I had a feeling that they would end up together, it was building throughout the entire movie. A few other moments were Eleanor and her assistant teacher and their lesbian relationship. First when Lily sees them then when Fate, the young boy who works from  Eleanor finds her and her assistant kissing in the woods. This  causes him and another boy to retaliate and burn her school house down, along with Lily's musical ballads, my heart sunk, she worked SO hard on these. After this accident Lily decides to head back to the city with Tom and decides to make cylinders out of music and to not publish her work. Truly an inspiring movie.