I first saw this movie when I was in 4th grade and it most defiantely inspired me to pick up the violin. Unfortunately my school didn't start teaching students instrumental music until 5th grade so I asked my mom to enroll me in private lessons. When I finally got into 5th grade I was allowed to go into the 6th grade strings group because I had experience. However, my middle school didn't have an orchestra so I dropped it for awhile then joined the orchestra at my hhigh school in freshman year. But I was put in the lowest orchestra and had a horrible teacher which discouraged me quite a bit. I ended up quiting orchestra and joining the choir instead, which I'd originally dropped for orchestra.
But very recently I pulled out my violin (named Artemis) and began to play again. Ive never been a fantastic violinist but it felt really good to get back into playing. Then I decided to look up the movie that first inspired me to pick up violin in the first place. Its been years since Ive seen this movie and have spent about the last hour and a half trying find it on imdb.com and google (which was difficult because I couldnt remember very much about the plot or the cast). And now that I found it, its really cool to find out that other people were inspired to play an instrument by this movie too.
Now I have to go to Blockbuster and watch this movie again. =]
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