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Free Fall - Freier Fall
morrobay:
--- Quote from: mariska on May 10, 2014, 08:07:18 pm ---From the comments: Kay was supposed to be hidden and mysterious. He just shows up in Marc's life. All the questions: how much time between the scenes, how often, how long, etc. wasn't important. The scenes showed the actual status, not the time it took.
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But because we are shown so few scenes of them happy together (actually only 2, before it starts to go downhill), the relationship itself is a mystery, and that’s frustrating for me. Were they really only happy twice? We see them more miserable than happy.
The only 2 times we see them when they really enjoy being together: at Kay’s apartment when he gives him the key, and even then Marc acts as if it’s no big deal (dammit, Marc!), and at the club.
The scene when they are running, silent, is so hard for me to watch, you just know the happy times are over already.
Then it’s a matter of Marc backing away and coming back, and never once thinking how that affects Kay. When Kay asks if he’s ever going to tell Bettina, Mark leaves. He backs away when he hits Kay, and then comes back to him when they have the argument in Kay’s apartment. He backs away and comes back to him in the same minute, at the hospital when he closes him off, then asks to be kissed.
I know, I know; this is not a happily-ever-after movie, and I appreciate that, and I love it anyway. But can’t we know a little more about the good times? (they don’t even have to be naked ;) ) The happy times they had together that made the bad times worth putting up with? (oh, man, bad grammar).
They can make all this up to me in part 2, when they go back and recap the whole affair, before going on to what happens, and if Marc goes after Kay (of course he does).
morrobay:
--- Quote from: mariska on May 10, 2014, 05:15:19 pm ---
So, in the fourth deleted scene Marc and Frank have been drinking together.
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Jeez, don't you just love how guys treat the whole planet as a big toilet? ::)
fritzkep:
Did watch the movie yesterday, not the gut punch that BBM was, but still a powerful movie.
Only watched it once, so I don't have the depth of observation that y'all have yet. Still, I was struck at how many scenes reminded me of BBM. Such as when Marc sat tired at the edge of a bed, and the girlfriend approached him from the back and put her hand over his chest. A number of other moments like this, but this one struck me.
morrobay:
Bettina coming up behind him is one of the very few likenesses. The more you watch, the more you'll see.
And there are many sequences that make this movie "its own", apart from Brokeback. Its great in its own right.......
I understand the reasons to compare, but this movie stands on its own.
fritzkep:
That's for sure!
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