If you devote your time to being with friends, helping others, and simply enjoying life, can it truly be called wasted time? “Once Upon a Time There Was a Singing Blackbird” shows us that the most important thing in life is not what we have achieved, but how “authentic” we have been. The film’s protagonist may not have created anything tangible, yet he left behind warmth and kindness wherever he passed. It is a hymn to a free individual, one who resembles no other.