Globe Editorial Bueller at 25: Stop and look around
You have to be kidding?
“Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.’’ These musings of an energetic 17-year-old have new relevance this month, as we celebrate — anyone? anyone? — the 25th anniversary of “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.’’ The 1986 John Hughes comedy has become a classic.
It isn't on my list.
Wolf Blitzer, Dan Quayle, Simon Cowell, and Justin Timberlake all call it their favorite movie, suggesting Bueller’s oddly diverse and timeless appeal....
(Blog editor snorting and sighing, pfft)
Bueller’s quips ring wiser than ever for a Generation X that has settled into life, work, and family: “I weep for the future’’; “a person should not believe in an -ism’’; “you wear too much eye makeup’’; “you realize if we played by the rules right now, we’d be in gym.’’
That would INCLUDE ZIONISM, right?
But no scene is more poignant than when Bueller, Cameron, and girlfriend Sloane share a long moment of quiet staring, in an empty art museum, uninterrupted by fears of the future. It is self-indulgent. And it is, after 25 years, enviable.
Is it?
