Harvey

THIS RABBIT GAG IS GOOD. ALRIGHT. 🐰🤍 Note: This review may come off a little cross-literary. And to be fair, I was convinced by a book to watch this one. Thank you, The Anthropocene Reviewed! “Harvey and I warm ourselves in all these golden moments. We've entered as strangers - soon we have friends. And they come over... and they sit with us... and they drink with us... and they talk to us. They tell about the big terrible things they've done and the big wonderful things they'll do. Their hopes, and their regrets, and their loves, and their hates. All very large, because nobody ever brings anything small into a bar. And then I introduce them to Harvey... and he's bigger and grander than anything they offer me. And when they leave, they leave impressed. The same people seldom come back; but that's envy, my dear. There's a little bit of envy in the best of us.”  Honestly, that entire monologue is the film. I think anyone who has read To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee would give a gentle nod to Elwood P. Dowd, the protagonist of this movie; as almost identical to Atticus Finch.  Decent, genuine, and emotionally intelligent.  Such characters could revolutionise simply by how lovingly they were written. And I bet those who dared to dive into their respective stories would agree that if only everyone did what they said, the world would be a much better place.  On a side note, what makes Harvey such a loveable movie is how real he is to Elwood just as how Elwood feels real to us (at least, to those of us who’ve come to embrace him), despite never truly existing. It’s the goodness for sure. The kind that exists deep down, in the people we know, or in ourselves.  Need I say more? ★★★★★