Great scene from the movie Among Ravens (2014).
"People are like gardens. Gardens and flowers want to blossom, but weeds overpower everything and flowers learn to tolerate weeds but, if they can't, the weeds need to be pulled to save the garden."
"Who decides what's a weed?"
Smart girl... Character of Joey, played by Johnny Sequoyah. Really liked her and Chad's relationship, also related a bit to Chad. So I wish the rest of the "grown-ups" in this movie were as open minded as the "child". At least in terms of having empathy and trying to understand those of us who are different. I guess I understood Chad like Joey did because my mind is apparently more open and child-like than most my age (a trait I think I had in common with Michael Jackson, another misunderstood soul).
Not a trait that's always appreciated by the "normal"/"grown-up" people who've lost their innocence and hardened their hearts and closed their minds, becoming cynical and jaded, blinding themselves to everything but their own myopic worldview and paradigms, putting people in neat little boxes as if life and people were so black and white (rarely). For those struggling to understand the movie or that found most of the characters unlikeable, maybe it would help to know the original title of this movie was An Unkindness of Ravens (same title as the Saul character's book).
