Milli, it's such a balm to find out that someone else is enjoying this as much as I am. You too, Fran! I didn't realize until this week how ready I was for a fresh obsession. Maybe, as an unconscious anniversary celebration of that other one which will never grow old.
I spent much of Saturday watching all the videos on the Chris Finch site. What I wonder at is how the dialog can be so ordinary yet so in character to the speaker, so consistently, even in the little scraps. The very first scene on that site is the conversation in the canteen about the concert the night before, when Todd asks 'Why did they have to have it so loud?' - and Karl wonders that he sounds like an old man. The hint of Todd as being what Eileen calls him much later - my sensitive son - slipped in. And used to and loving the quiet of home already at his young age.
And then in that Goodbye Karl scene, when Todd talks about when he was a boy and went to the camp in the Peaks and was so homesick. It is his analogy for coming out and never realizing how close he always was, how hard and far he thought it would be. But it just like Todd to think of that analogy - seeing his home from a new spot.
Yes, I love that scene Milli. It is so natural. The way Todd takes up his plate when they are inside, and jokes. That indescribable blend of vanishing awkwardness between them, and gratitude and peace and acceptance. It is not a heavy-handed this or that to the story. It is not necessarily a final goodbye, just a particular closing, as they find themselves experiencing it at that particular time.
