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Heath Ledger - the grieving thread
malina:
--- Quote from: Ellemeno on January 25, 2008, 11:11:16 pm ---Does anybody else here keep having the experience of going, "WHAT? HEATH LEDGER WHAT?" practically every single time you see the horrible words? I have found out the terrible news over and over again, each time new. Can anyone else understand what I mean?
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Hi Clarissa..
It is so surreal.. those words together. I keep having my own variation of that double take.. I look at the words, not just 'dead', but 'grieving', 'funeral'... anything that says 'death'... and I ... oh dear, this is a bit odd, but I think, what if it was a week ago, say, and I had suddenly flashed forward in time and come onto the boards and seen those words... how shocking it would be.
Okay, that description probably doesn't make much sense. hmm. I guess what I mean is, every time I see the words, they are freshly shocking... almost as if I didn't know... so I flash back to the time when I really didn't know, because it hadn't happened yet, and that seems so recent, and yet so far... way on the other side of some divide.
I look at a pairing of words like "Heath's funeral", and my mind just wants to scream, "WHAT????? How could Heath be having a funeral??"
It is so strange, because I have had people close to me die... several people, and one who was extremely close. But I don't think I've ever been quite as bewildered by a death as I am by this one. That whole "how could this happen?" reaction.
:(
How could this happen?
Meryl:
--- Quote from: jstephens9 on January 26, 2008, 12:19:08 am ---I can't comprehend the two words together either....it just still seems like it can't be true. When I saw it, it was just like I at first ignored it, almost like it was just something that was being said, but wasn't true. And then I keep feeling this urge to withdraw, cause it just seems like sometimes it has all ended, but I keep saying I have to go on and remember what he gave us, what we have to remember, and that in a very extremely sad way that this is another chapter in the life that the movie and Heath gave us. In some ways it is almost like we have been given another sad tragedy to work ourselves through, to try to figure out, to try and understand somehow. It just seems so ironical that after all these feelings Brokeback Mountain gave us over a tragedy that should have not happened in the movie that we now have to face it in real life. And then to think on top of that we lost Jack (Jake) in the movie and now we loose Heath (Ennis) in real life. Somehow it just seems too surreal. And what makes it even worse is that I don't feel that Heath was happy in his life and then I think about how Ennis was unhappy in his life. It really is a lot to handle.
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What Jack said. :( :( :(
Kerry:
I've been trying to get my head around why I'm experiencing the level of grief I am right now. Never in my life before have I felt this saddened by the passing of a celebrity, someone I never knew personally. And perhaps that's the nub of it. In a weird, metaphysical kinda way, I do feel like I knew Heath. No, not because he was a fellow Australian. No, I think the reason I feel this way is because I always felt an extremely close, intimate even, bond with Ennis. With no disrespect to the loving memory of our dear Heath, I think my extreme grief may be coming from the feeling I have that it's Ennis who has died. That it is, in fact, Ennis who I am mourning.
Here's a little farewell gift, just from me to you, little darlin'. Safe journey home, precious one.
TOoP/Bruce:
I just found this:
magicmountain:
A tribute from Luke Davies, scriptwriter for Candy.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23108546-28737,00.html
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