Joe versus the volcano

After reading Mark's entry about Joe versus the Volcano I decided that I'd go out and hire it for a look.  Finding a video store which had it in stock wasn't that easy, even asking for it raised eyebrows - this is not surprising given that the film was released at about the same time that some of the staff who were serving me were born.

The film is an enigmatic look at man who, after being told that he has a fatal disease called 'Brain Cloud', is able to release himself from a dull existence and free his mind to the real potential of the world.

Echoing Mark's sentiments, I loved the quote about the world being asleep:

My father says that almost the whole world is asleep. Everybody you know. Everybody you see. Everybody you talk to. He says that only a few people are awake and they live in a state of constant total amazement

My other favourite scene in the movie arrives as Joe is in the process of awakening; he turns to his hired chauffeur and asks him for advice about what kind of clothes he should purchase, to which the chauffeur answers:

Clothes make the man. I believe that. You say to me you want to go shopping, you want to buy clothes, but you don't know what kind. You leave that hanging in the air, like I'm going to fill in the blank, that to me is like asking me who you are, and I don't know who you are, I don't want to know. It's taken me my whole life to find out who I am, and I'm tired now, you hear what I'm saying?