The Life of Chuck
Wow! Pure magic! Have you ever watched a film and felt like it was made just for you - line after line, scene after scene, that seemed to be either meant for you to hear and see or actually taken right out of your life story? That’s what happened to me when I watched The Life of Chuck . And the thing is, despite the feeling that this film was made for me, I also believe many other viewers will feel exactly the same way. Until a week ago, I had never heard of The Life of Chuck . I own Stephen King’s book If it Bleeds , which contains the short (65 pages) story upon which the film is based, but hadn’t yet read it. I first encountered The Life of Chuck when I checked the new releases for June 13. I then looked up the film on Wikipedia and read the first two lines (I never read film descriptions or reviews, or watch trailers, before watching a film), just enough to learn that the film was based on King’s short story. Every few years or so, I get this ‘punch-in-the-gut’ sense about a film ...
