The Soloist

The  Soloist with Jamie Fox and Robert Downy Jr.  is about  “Journalist Steve Lopez discovers Nathaniel Anthony Ayers , a former classical music prodigy, playing his violin on the streets of L.A. As Lopez endeavors to help the homeless man find his way back, a unique friendship is formed, one that transforms both their lives. (yahoo movies)” It is a great movie I would say inorge the Acadamy and the reviews and go see it. It really show a love like no other in this movie. Not only a person to person friendship love but a person to career love.

Nathaniel Anthony Ayers played by Jamie Foxx is so in love with his music and nothing means more to him then that. He is homeless and he is happy and content that he has a 2 string violin that he can play every day to play music alone with the sounds of th busy city of L.A. The first time you hear him play or at least when I did goose bumps went up and down my arms. The passion he showed was amazing. It makes you really think if I had as much passion as he does for music for some of the things in my life where would I be? What would I as a person be doing? Who would I have met? What place would I have seen? Who would I have heard speak or play? The questions reel on as the flim does. But he loses it all somehow but hes still content with the small things in life and music. I mean how many small things are we not content wth though out our own lives? He loves just being out side and listening to the sounds of the city and doing what he loves along with it.  Why cant we do that? Yes he is homelss and has no job, some may say no life as well. Or is it us that don’t have the life and he does. We may have our fancy jobs and cars. A plate of food 3 times a day a house with a.c and heat, etc. But is life all that or just happiness? Doing what you love or just keeping a job to stay a float  but everyday you go in or walk in the door of your home you wish you weren’t there? I’m not saying go homeless and do what you love. I’m just throwing a question out there of whats your passion and why aren’t you running for it to live? Some its God. Some its self acheivement. But what is it for you? We’re all different.

Then you have the journalist Steve Lopez played by Robert Downey Jr. who doesn’t know how to show compassoin at first he’s just looking for a story. But as the story he’s writting goes on he gets closer to this man helping him find his way back and transfroming there lives together. A rich city boy sees what living on the streets looks like. He sees the danger, the death, the illness, etc. So he starts to try to take care of this man and the compassion he gains for him is like no other. He seeks him out everyday not only for the story but for there friendship. The compassion alone was amazing. It really makes you look into your life at the end and say do I have compassion like that and if I am why aren’t I even using it? Just writting this story helped Natheniel get a new cello, listening to the philiharmoic in the disney theader, and ect. Just loving him telling his story helped him get what he needed. Telling his story alone impacted many people’s lives. The stories of both these people impacted. All because he stopped caring about what Nathaniel was and started seeing him as a person who needed help. A person who was a music prodigal to a bum because of something. It’s amazing how we can all be like Steve Lopez. We can’t put it in the LA times but we can get the story around and help a whole group of people. How relationships and be built and the broken ones rebuilt. 

This movie has so much to offer. So much potental to affect the way we live our lives. We all dont have to be journelist looking for a story. But theres many of untold stories out there that need to be heard. People who need to be helped. So I highly recommend this movie to anyone. And say lets affect compassion and passion into our lives and effect a person or even a community. Go see The Soloist.