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Why are we like this?
Brown Eyes:
ednbarby and isabelle,
I LOVE both of your posts. 8)
And, for the record I completely agree that this film has changed my life for the better too.
karen1129:
I will never forget this film, til my dying day. I still think about Jack and Ennis every night when I go to bed. The impact it had on me is something I am grateful for. The best thing it did for me..... and I'm really not sure why, or how.... is it
made me get all the negatives out of my life. My thinking is defininetly different, and for that, I am grateful. No negativity in my life. Won't allow it from others that are around me either.
Does that make sense?
Karen
Daniel:
I have continued to enumerate our special connections with the universe and how this film has affected them in all of my postings, here, and even moreso on IMDB, when my posts were left alone by the various trolls that resided there. We are not "sick puppies" or anything else sick for feeling this way about this particular film. We are not the first people to connect with a film in such a deep, resounding way, and we will not be the last. Many of us have been surprised by our connection to the film, and so many of us are still deer caught in the headlights, but this is not the first time that it has been experienced.
If you do not believe me, look at some of the Sufi mystic poetry of the twelfth century, or at some of the fourteenth century works inspired by the church or the rebirth of classicism. No work of art during the Renaissance came from a small amount of spiritual connection with the subjects that inspired them. Everything about the Renaissance, from its redefined concept of the soul to the new artistic expansions of universal views, was brought about by some spiritual or artistic experience: an aesthetic one to be certain, but perhaps something deeper.
It would not be too far from the truth to perceive our response and the growth of this community as a Renaissance. We have connected to a deep moment of art so profound that it is transforming every facet of our being. As the community grows, and we learn to explore all of these facets, we can nurture the Renaissance within ourselves, and thus sponsor a Renaissance which may indeed be capable of transforming some lesser aspects of human civilization. Perhaps we happy few have been called to dedicate ourselves to this subtle but powerful transformation: to aid the expansion of human consciousness; to translate heartache to heart-growth; to mold our lives into dedicated if flawed mirrors of the ideal; to alter the underlying beliefs of humanity which have so far been of little use to our spiritual manifest destiny.
Can it be that we are the first artists, philosophers, and aestheticists of the New Renaissance? Will the human perspective grow from this experience or be diminished? Whoever has started this thread has asked why we are like this? I wonder now if this should be what we are asking. Is it not more important to understand how we are to use our reactions and responses to this incredible and beautiful story to grow beyond what we were before?
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Daniel on November 30, 2006, 06:26:52 pm --- Whoever has started this thread has asked why we are like this? I wonder now if this should be what we are asking. Is it not more important to understand how we are to use our reactions and responses to this incredible and beautiful story to grow beyond what we were before?
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As the aforementioned person who started this thread, I would argue that both are valid questions, and that seeking the answers to either can help us grow beyond what we were before. But thank you, Daniel, for a beautiful post! As always, you've offered some valuable insights and ideas. :D
isabelle:
--- Quote from: karen1129 on November 30, 2006, 05:59:56 pm ---My thinking is defininetly different, and for that, I am grateful. No negativity in my life. Won't allow it from others that are around me either.
Does that make sense?
Karen
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Absolutely, Karen. It makes sense to me as I am striving to kick all negativity, coming from me or people I have to live or work with, out of my life.
But it is taking me so bloody long! OK, not 4 f****** years, but almost one, and I haven't started being really truthful yet with the people around me, in "real" life (I am truthful here! And Amanda I agree, keeping these visits to Bettermost is a very enjoyable little secret!).
I am slow, I am worried; I am going to cause turmoil when I start *speaking* to the persons around me; but I can feel it is all about to come out, I am about to spill the beans :o :laugh:. It's taken time, but by the end of this month I think things will have been spoken.
Namely, that I am ashamed I could not put up with this society's (France's) bitter homophobia 13 years ago, and I chose a "normal" (squirm squirm) life with a guy over my clandestine love with my lovely.
I am 40; not too late to let everyone know I have come to my senses. I just think I would feel so happy and liberated just by saying it to everyone I know! And, I do think it is the least I can do: I owe it to Brokeback Mountain.
I feel I have no right to let this film down, or all my posting here will have been meaningless, just another make believe.
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