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I LOVE YOU PHILLIP MORRIS
delalluvia:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on December 16, 2010, 12:10:57 am ---I'm so glad you enjoyed the movie and your perceptions are right on!
Isn't that the truth!!
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The more I think about it, the more the love story comes across as genuine and very sweet. It was a real love story, and the writers/actors/directors managed to get that on screen believably and it comes across as very real. Because Steven Russell had found true love and like most of us, he'd never had it before and was willing to do anything to keep it.
It reminds me of what a historian one time said about Anne Bolyen and Henry VIII. Serious historians can dodge and circle around the love affair of the two all they want when talking about Tudor politics or the rationale behind England's split from RCC, but when you strip away everything else, and get down to the brass tacks, it all happened because Henry VIII wanted Anne Boleyn. Period.
So all that Steven Russell did was because he wanted Phillip Morris. Period. :)
SFEnnisSF:
--- Quote from: delalluvia on December 15, 2010, 11:24:02 pm ---
The prison love affair was really quite romantic. The dance scene was amazingly tender and loving and completely believable and held that mood even as an absurdity was going on in the background.
The homosexuality of the characters is never played for laughs, or as a joke. It simply is, as the movie goes on.
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And that's the magic of this movie. It's not the centerpiece.
However, I saw it again tonight, this time at the CineArts in San Jose here, very suburban area, and 3 people walked out after the first gay sex scene. Loosers!!!
SFEnnisSF:
Ok, I see this is now playing in Seattle at the Egyptian Theatre, and in Denver at the Mayan Theatre. I want crowd reports! :D
southendmd:
Finally! I see it's playing both at the multiplex and the art house cinema.
Despite another nasty cold and expected snow, I'll try to see it this week.
delalluvia:
Question to anyone who's seen it:
In the early early trailers of the movie - a year of more ago - in the scene where the prisoners are gathered to watch a movie. When I saw the trailer, the movie playing was "Ghost". When I finally saw the movie a few days ago, the movie the prisoners were watching was some black and white movie I didn't know.
Anyone else notice this?
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