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TOTW 18/08: The lines from the trailer
BlissC:
--- Quote from: loneleeb3 on May 26, 2008, 01:36:00 pm ---
--- Quote ---and also about the line "love is a force of nature" - I have never understood it´s relevence to BBM. First of all it sounds a bit cheesy, which BBM never is. Secondly, to me the movie is about that there actually are things more forceful than love, since they never end up together
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I think it's very relevent to the movie.
Love is a force of nature. Against all sense and logic, you can't help who you love. You may be able to fight against it and deny it but it doesn't change the truth of the matter. It's like trying to hold back the wind or a raging river.
A dam may be able to hold the water back for a time but eventually it has to be let out. Even little bits at a time or it will eventually over flow and consume everything in its path.
The fact that they never wound up together doesn't negate the fact that they loved each other.
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I think that line makes more sense in the context of the story - the written story rather than the film. With the whole emphasis on nature throughout the story (as discussed in the TOTW a few weeks ago) their love is "just" another force of nature on the mountain. It's almost inevitable right from the start, and at times with the lines in the story you feel that Jack and Ennis are part of that natural world of the mountain...flying on the "euphoric, bitter air", Ennis feeling he could paw the moon right out of the sky. The words and the sentiment make them part of that natural world.
Like loneleeb3 though, I too think it is relevant to the film in the sense that you have no control over who you love and you can't fight it, it's just that for me it makes more sense somehow in the context of the written story.
optom3:
Another thing I did not kow was that Otis Reddings, dock of the bay was posthumous.That brings back happy teen memeories for me,I know seems like an anacronym happy and teen next to each other,but I did have some good times.
optom3:
--- Quote from: loneleeb3 on May 26, 2008, 01:36:00 pm ---I think it's very relevent to the movie.
Love is a force of nature. Against all sense and logic, you can't help who you love. You may be able to fight against it and deny it but it doesn't change the truth of the matter. It's like trying to hold back the wind or a raging river.
A dam may be able to hold the water back for a time but eventually it has to be let out. Even little bits at a time or it will eventually over flow and consume everything in its path.
The fact that they never wound up together doesn't negate the fact that they loved each other.
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I agree and love your analogy with the dam.Ennis is like a dam on the verge of bursting its walls.He is so pent up,that when love finally cannot be ignored any longer he does burst out.Once released,just like the raging river,it is unstoppable.The ss is very clear about the sheer force and violence of their "infrequent couplings".
In the film,Ennis on several occasions, burts forth in a blaze of passion or fury.
So I firmly believe in the love is a force of nature,it will out in the end,no matter how you try to deny it.
loneleeb3:
--- Quote ---So I firmly believe in the love is a force of nature,it will out in the end,no matter how you try to deny it.
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Amen sister!
optom3:
--- Quote from: loneleeb3 on May 27, 2008, 08:09:15 am ---Amen sister!
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Been there, done that, wrote the script and it still hurts like hell.Just call me Miss Ennis or Ennisina if you prefer. !!!!!
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