Seen any good films lately?

Have you ever recommended a film to somebody?

Have you recommended it to them or just from you?

Have you read them well enough to know that they might enjoy it?

Have you got them to return the favour and acquire a recommendation from them?

I love a recommendation.

On what grounds did you give your advice?

Your much sought after opinion, your unearthly expertise or your biased shallow tripe.

Perhaps you've chosen the slow burning quotes "hilarious" comedy. Oh dear.

Perhaps you've chosen something that jumps out of the gates - a car crash in the first scene perhaps. Better.

A film that grabs you from the start is well... a pretty good place to start.

But how about this....

What about a film that grabs you from the middle?

You can only make this recommendation if you have bumped into a film in the middle.

And you haven't turned it off. 

You recommend it because you saw its journey through to the end.

That's absolutely fine. Great. A brilliant way of making a recommendation. You can already tell somebody to stick with it regardless of how it started because you are pretty certain they will get the pay off you did. 

They have a treat in store and you know it.

Because some film maker had to deliver those scenes and deliver them to a high standard, and they didn't even open or close the film with them. Due diligence. Care and attention tuned into passion and turned into love.

I could draw analogies to life, and perhaps wax lyrical about how we should grab it from the middle. Actually that's right up my avenue. I am sure I could come up with a bit of poetic claptrap about that.

But not today.

I could paint a metaphor for social conversation, that it should maintain engagement and not just finish strong. But chitchat isn't a TED talk. Not everything needs to be youtubed. Slippers are comfy because they're comfy not because they are looking to win a Comfy Award.

But when that movie whose transmission you join rather than initiate, grabs you and grabs you urgently, it grabs you from the inside.

It grabs you by the middle.

Because, broadly speaking, that is where the heart resides.