The Blue Butterfly

Last night we watched The Blue Butterfly, a sweet movie based on the true story of a boy named David Marenger who was born in 1981 in Quebec and at 6 was diagnosed with brain cancer. The cancer spread, and he was not expected to live. The boy's dream was to catch a Blue Morpho, a beautiful and rare butterfly. He traveled to the jungles of Central America, in the company of a Canadian entomologist, to try to fulfill his dream. After he returned, his cancer had gone into remission. The movie, as movies are wont to do, plays a little loose with the particulars, but in its essence it's a true story--a story of hope, a story of the wisdom of Nature that we have in large part forgotten in this modern world of ours, a story of redemption. The movie is beautifully done, and it kept the attention of my son the Nintendo addict, which is something. The DVD adds behind-the-scenes extras, like interviews with David and the movie makers, which are worth seeing as well.

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The Blue Butterfly