{"id":3992,"date":"2010-02-02T17:06:49","date_gmt":"2010-02-02T17:06:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/deaconsbench\/2010\/02\/looking-up-scenes-from-a-marriage-in-just-four-minutes.html"},"modified":"2010-02-02T17:06:49","modified_gmt":"2010-02-02T17:06:49","slug":"looking-up-scenes-from-a-marriage-in-just-four-minutes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/deaconsbench\/2010\/02\/looking-up-scenes-from-a-marriage-in-just-four-minutes.html","title":{"rendered":"Looking &#8220;Up&#8221;: Scenes from a marriage in just four minutes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/deaconsbench\/up.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"up.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/212\/import\/assets_c\/2010\/02\/up-thumb-400x225-11241.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center;margin: 0 auto 20px\" \/><\/a><\/span><br \/>\nI was heartened to see that the wonderful Disney\/Pixar film &#8220;Up&#8221; nabbed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/entertainment\/movies\/2010\/02\/02\/2010-02-02_oscars_nominations_2010_despite_best_picture_expansion_its_same_old_same_old.html\">an Oscar nomination for Best Picture<\/a> &#8212; and deservedly so.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Trolling around on YouTube I found this lovely scene from the film, which distills the heart and soul of a long marriage down to just four poignant, bittersweet, silent minutes.  Hopes and disappointments, dreams and frustrations, life and death &#8212; it&#8217;s all here.  And it never fails to move me to tears. Significantly, the sequence begins and ends in church. &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Sh7kVYYBNyk\">Take a few moments and watch.<\/a>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;And keep a tissue nearby.\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was heartened to see that the wonderful Disney\/Pixar film &#8220;Up&#8221; nabbed an Oscar nomination for Best Picture &#8212; and deservedly so.&nbsp; Trolling around on YouTube I found this lovely scene from the film, which distills the heart and soul of a long marriage down to just four poignant, bittersweet, silent minutes. 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