Resolute/Resolution

Write about resolution?

As an author, you'd think I'd jump right to story endings. And I'll get there. It's woven into my core. 

My first thought, however, flew to the Nicholas Cage, National Treasure movies; specifically to the pair of Resolute Desks--one in the White House and one in Buckingham Palace--which play an important role in the second movie, Book of Secrets.

If you're not familiar with the mini-franchise, Nicholas Cage portrays an historian and code-breaker who spits in the face of laws and danger to find a lost treasure in the first movie and, in the second, to clear the name of a relative who was thought to be a conspirator in Abraham Lincoln's assassination.

Why, with this month's theme, did I initially jump all over the two desks? It has nothing to do with what defines them but fully with the way my mind often drifts to wordplay, word associations... word sounds. Resolute/resolution. Convenient to this month's prompt, my mental gymnatstics worked.

Now, here's where it comes together.
The two films, with all their treasure hunting and code-breaking and more, fall smack dab into the lane of books and movies I always say yes to or, at least, give a try. (And aspire to write.) That's because it's not only the journey that leaves me satisfied, but with the heroes achieving their initial goals AND getting something extra in the process, their double endings are golden. Resolution accomplished.

Have a book or movie recommendation that falls into Jody Feldman's craveable lane, "Bring it!" she says.