Dear Zachary (2008)

I really want people to watch this movie. I don't want to scare them off by saying things that will make them think "this is not for me". But at the same time, I don't want to be misleading and make this movie out to be something that is easy to handle. It. Is. Not. That being said, this was one of the best documentaries I have ever seen.  Perhaps one of the better movies in general, that I have ever seen.  This movie is a documentary, that started out as a memorial tribute to the unborn son of Dr. Andrew Bagby, a good friend of the filmmaker Kurt Kuenne, who had been murdered.  This movie was touching, beautiful, shocking, horrifying, inspirational and just downright sad.  I don't know that I have ever felt such a range of emotions during a movie in my entire life.  It was put together so well, was interesting from the moment it started and sucked me completely in. I cried like a baby through half of it.  I was stunned. I was horrified. I wanted to go out and do something. I will not give any spoilers away and I am glad that I didn't know ahead of time what the whole story was. Its part of the beauty of the tapestry that this movie seems to be.   At the same time, it made me think so much, about people I have lost in my life. People I have known very well, and felt a great sense of loss after they were gone.  But also people I knew very little but seemed to have left a hole in my life anyway. How one person can touch so many people in so many ways.  How one person can connect so many people that wouldn't otherwise be connected.  How amazing it would be to be able to talk to people and get photos, and see videos of friends I have lost.  To create a real picture of who somebody was, not just to me, but to everyone around them.  That is only one story that is told in this incredible movie.  I can't say enough good things about it.  I will say it is rough, there are parts that are hard to watch, things that are hard to hear.  But overall, this movie is so worth taking that risk.  I am in love with this movie.  It is available on Instant Netflix only through 2/24 right now, but I urge you if you don't do instant streaming...find this movie. Go to your library, rent it...do whatever it is you do to watch stuff, and watch this.  Its a story that needs to be heard.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1152758/