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The Most Beautiful Heartbreak  
18th-Jan-2012 01:38 pm
Now and again something finds you when you most need it. Sometimes, if you're really lucky, that thing will open your eyes in a way they've never been before and you are forever changed. The best documentary films are transformative things that don't merely serve to educate, they go into your heart and mind and make a home there for a while. Especially the ones about people - so that you will know they happened.

YOU need to know this story, and see the film so that you will know these people happened. You need to share this story with everyone you know. Make this post viral so that more people can know what I'm sharing with you. Films like this don't come around often, but they definitely have the power to change us. That's worth watching, and ultimately how we keep memories of people alive, because they happened - and that's important.

I must warn you though, watching this is no easy journey. It will test you and force you to find your limits. It will break your heart in the most beautiful way possible. It will devastate and ravage your peace of mind for a while, but if you stick it out you will find a kind of humanity, hope, and deep, unending love you couldn't imagine existed. I'm not being dramatic either. This is as real as it gets. This is a film about tragedy giving birth to activism. It's about friendship and commitment in the face of injustice. It's as much about love as it is about evil, only in the end love wins as it always should.



What happened next, no one ever could have foreseen…

Kurt & Andrew, best friends since the age of 7. Kurt made this film as a love letter to Andrew, his son, and his parents.

Film Trailer

The Full Film: Dear Zachary


Please share this on your chosen social media outlets and pass it on to others so that we may all be transformed into more compassionate beings, and so that we may honor this family. Thank you in advance.
19th-Jan-2012 03:14 pm (UTC)
Oh, Brad. I was home sick today so I watched it this morning. Devastating. I have never seen a movie that illustrates better both the horrifying despair and the absolute grace that I see at work. I'm a hardass, with no apologies, and it keeps people (little ones and big ones) alive. Next time someone tells me they don't understand why I won't agree to a bond on a "harmless" defendant, I'll refer them to this film.
19th-Jan-2012 05:23 pm (UTC)
I own this one. It's the most powerful doc I've ever seen. I fell in love with everyone in the Bagby family, and was so completely taken by the way they handled their grief.

Just amazing.
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