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Kerry:
--- Quote from: ednbarby on January 09, 2007, 08:39:55 pm ---Yep - stick a fork in 'em - they're done.
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Exactly! They couldn't organize a piss-up in a brewery! ::) Wouldn't recognize high art if they fell over it! Despicable bastards! You can tell I'm still carrying a lot of unresolved anger about this!!! >:( Don't get me started! Oops, too late!!! :-\
Kerry:
--- Quote from: moremojo on January 09, 2007, 08:31:08 pm ---I'm glad you like it :D. I got it from an austere but great film from 1964 called Gertrud; this was the final work of the great Danish director Carl Theodor Dreyer. You might be interested to read this post I wrote last May 15th on this film, and how its themes relate to those of BBM:
http://bettermost.net/forum/index.php/topic,1520.msg26919.html#msg26919
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Wow! You write beautifully! This especially brought a lump to my throat:
"Gertrud resembles Ennis in that both characters ultimately recognize the all-encompassing importance of Love. The characters are significantly different in that Gertrud is as much in love with an idea as with any human being she actually knew, while Ennis is transfixed by his enduring memory of one very special soul. Gertrud is also a strangely static character, always hanging on to the same ideal from youth into old age, while Ennis is seen to evolve from a timid, broken youth barely conscious of his own desires to a man who, despite the ravages of his outer circumstances, cherishes the inner knowledge of the precious gift that another so tenderly lavished upon him. He knows what he is, and what he had with Jack. In his inarticulate manner, he might well concur with Gertrud that Love is indeed All."
:'(
skye28:
Hi everybody,
Thanks for the words of welcome. We have snow here in Western Pa and of course it reminded me of the movie (which everything does now). Thinking about watching again tomorrow night. Anyway, hope everyone is doing well, have a good day today.
Front-Ranger:
You and me both, brother (or sister)! I had to laugh as I was standing at Devil's Tower this past weekend, because the sight of that mammoth volcanic uprising, so tawny bathed in flickering light, reminded me so much of Ennis, while the plain stretched out before it bathed in grey-blue haze reminded me so much of Jack in that scene on the mountain that followed Tent Scene 1.
Welcome to our crazy happy bunch.
Ladyeve:
Hi,
I live in NYC. I hope I don't seem silly, or asking a lot of goofy questions, I just watched BBM , alone, because my boyfriend absolutely refused to watch it with me, (something to consider before I take the plunge, not open minded), It was like asking him to drink draino or something. Well anyway, After watching it twice, I had so many questions, thoughts, feelings, there are things I want know, and talk to people who are also interested in this topic. the struggle between love, fear, acceptance, and need. WoW this film opens up a range of emotions that touches us one way or the other in whatever relationship we have. So here I am a little late in the game.
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