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ifyoucantfixit:
I have watched so much of the media reporting of Heath's death and had the sudden
urge to watch the movie. However sad it always made me, i needed to see Heath up and
walking around and healthy. Alive. i watched it and then the movie The Order. They are both
very dark and sad. But compared to seeing that scurroulous body bag, being wheeled out
over and over. and over. it was helpful. For just a while i could pretend that the only sadness
was from the fictional story of a man losing his love. Not the real life sadness of his being gone.
mvansand76:
--- Quote from: ifyoucantfixit on January 28, 2008, 06:07:13 pm ---
I have watched so much of the media reporting of Heath's death and had the sudden
urge to watch the movie. However sad it always made me, i needed to see Heath up and
walking around and healthy. Alive. i watched it and then the movie The Order. They are both
very dark and sad. But compared to seeing that scurroulous body bag, being wheeled out
over and over. and over. it was helpful. For just a while i could pretend that the only sadness
was from the fictional story of a man losing his love. Not the real life sadness of his being gone.
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{{{{{{{Janice}}}}}}}
It still hurts so much, doesn't it?
Mikaela:
I'm embarrassingly slow in the uptake, but....seeing this painting in a smaller version in Oilgun's sig line finally made it click home what it's showing me:
The classical image of someone with an angel on his one shoulder, and a devil on the other, urging him in opposite directions in life.
This didn't fully strike me all at once, since the angel/devil aspects are just versions of himself, no different in size, apparel, looks... only difference is that one is dark because of being in shadow, and one is paler, bordering on transluscent, because he's in the light.
If this is what the artist was after, I think he's succeeded - we all have urges to do good, and to do bad - and representing these by versions of the same person, whispering to him, talking him into something - yep, iit works for me. As before I do like that the middle character, the "real him" looks so uncertain, inwardly focused, weary of mindstruggles - it fits the topic.
It probably says something about me that of the good and evil aspect representations here I definitely like the darker one the best....
This portrait appeals much more to me when I interpret it as Heath the actor lending himself to the painter's vision of the concept of a struggle between good and evil within one human being, than as a direct character interpretation and presentation of Heath specifically.
MaineWriter:
--- Quote from: Mikaela on January 28, 2008, 03:09:16 pm ---(((Leslie)))
I bet the emotions and depression were more intense back then than we seem to remember now - time does mellow emotions and blurs the memory of pain. A good thing, or how would we be able to move forward?
But also, however much we grieved, however heartshot we were, a sliver of our minds and a piece of our souls must consciously or subconsciously have held on to the comforting thought that "this is fiction. Noone died in RL". No such comfort can be found now.... I think that makes it much more difficult, harsh, unrelentinig, - certainly I feel that way....
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Oh Mika, so very well stated and so very true. "No one had died in RL." Sigh...
I keep telling myself he is safe and at peace because he told me so himself! I know this. But the day to day is taking its toll right and making it hard for me to access that spiritual knowledge. I know it is because I am tired and didn't sleep. Things will get better...
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Mikaela:
This is one of the most touching pictures I have seen of Heath. The look on his face - that's one dad who loves his daughter.
*sigh*
I hope someone takes care of and preserves that purple cap of his, keeping it so that Matilda can have it to remember him by when she grows up (along with those black-and-red striped fingerless mittens). He seemed to wear that one everywhere, clearly bringing it along with him when he travelled.
The image is from here: http://www.celebrity-babies.com/2008/01/tribute-to-cele.html#more
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