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Finally got around to Harmontown.
Pause for a second,
shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhOCKING!!!
Man, did it deliver, for its intended audience. I seriously can't get a lens for those who didn't wade through the Harmon experience IRT, but I listened to the podcasts as they went out, then to see the story behind them, and immediacy, and the fluency.
If I had to sum it up in a word, the word would be honest. It's the most honest thing I felt I've seen in a while. Its really weird to have the word 'relatable' be applied to mass media in a manner for immediate, but this documentary really offers a perspective on a life lived that it could be the life you live, yet so brave and quick you don't know if you'd survive. It echoes all the things you'd like to think you would do, while suggesting that you'd never have the courage to follow through.
If it's possible to be both humbled and inspired at the same time, that is Harmontown for me.
Life is full of broken people who are trying to do better. What a message.
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We need the kind of courage that can withstand the subtle corruption of the cynics - E.W.
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