Just finished watching BarberShop starring Ice Cube, Eve, and Cedric the Entertainer. It was pretty funny though not hilarious as the clerk at the video store said. The critic who said it was a modern day It’s a Wonderful Life was right, it was a feel good movie all around. Ironically I also got a haircut today and there was no community of people talking and laughing their way through life together at Supercuts. What happened to those family owned businesses where people all knew each other and people socialized their day away? Everything today is a business transaction between grumpy clerks and grumpy customers. A priest in Italy made some headlines some time ago by declaring fast food to be “uncatholic” meaning that meals should be shared and not just be individualistic. I have to agree that we have lost something today when there is almost no interaction between people in stores, fast food joints, etc.. Barbershop seemed pretty “Catholic” in the sense that it showed a barbershop as being a source of grace. Cedric’s character was the comic but his serious speech to Ice Cube included a line like “Your father realized that something as simple as a man's haircut could change how he felt on the inside".