Life is filled with music everywhere we go. You never know where you might find it and how it might bring you back to a long time ago. I have a large collection as some already know, but it’s not just international music. It’s also almost all the songs I heard over the years of my life. It’s all thanks to my freaky memory which gathered so many details but most of them are disturbing. However not all of them, especially my interests in music. Which brings me back to my subject of how life thrives on music. Music makes great subject matter for a lot of different movies. Take A Song For Us, for example. When a young girl named Corrina (Karen Scobie) films a busker (Keith McKie) on the street, he sings a rare beautiful song that impresses Corrina, and she has to show her mother Alice (Lisa Kovack). Upon revelation, Alice explains the busker’s name is Tom and how they used to be lovers. It saddens her to see that his life has become significantly worse since they last saw each other. Mother and daughter take a lovely walk through nature together and Alice explains how she was in love with Tom and their story together. It all started years ago when a younger Alice (Haley Midgette) went to Yorkville with an interest in folk singers. Upon arriving in a bar, she sees the younger version of Tom (Tyson Coady) for the first time ever and he instantly sings a song especially for her. Shortly after Tom wraps, he suggests Alice go up and perform while he looks for a place she can stay a while. Alice gets acquanited with some of Tom’s other friends, and instantly moves in with a lady named Sally (Jessica Allen) who has an interest in Tarot. As Alice lives her newfound life, she develops feelings for Tom after he explains his backstory. Then one particular day, Alice meets up with Tom to learn about his latest work-in-progress, and decides to move in with him. Their song “A Song For Us” becomes a big hit but Tom can’t travel back to United States as he’s a draft dodger who wanted nothing to do with WWII at the time. As the war continues to get worse shown by old stock footage, Tom gets more overwhelmed and his life as a hippie leads to him taking drugs in an attempt to ease the pain. Drugs take his life over more in his life and this leads to complications in both the relationship with Alice and everything else in his life. Eventually, Tom packs his things and leaves Alice behind, much to her misery. Eventually Alice herself moves away to the country where she stayed with Tom’s friend Chuck (Sean Meldrum) and they established a relationship which resulted in the birth of Corrina. Corrina then decides to invite her mother to reocnnect with Tom for the first time years as she is covering him in a documentary she’s making. Tom himself however continues to wander the town as a busker. Eventually they find him along the side of the bridge about to jump. Alices feels she needs to bring Tom back to her place where she decides to remind of his youth before the drugs took over his life. Tom’s old friends Andrew (Brian Carleton) and Sally (Caroly Larson) come along too and soon Tom begins to get his memory back.
As the film progresses, the real-life feeling of a true love story really begins to reflect. Going back to the past and showing both content in SD and FullHD makes for an interesting artistic look, with the combination of stock footage and the film of the movie itself. The characters in both the past and present scenes of the movie are well portrayed and look like they could be the versions of themselves with the age difference. The whole thing was beautifully made and with all the variety in character personalities and locations, this whole thing was a rather lovely mix with a heartwarming concept. I’ve certainly been seeing a lot of things that give me warm fuzzy feelings lately. Must be what I need.
