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Resurrecting the Movies thread...
ednbarby:
Oh, and Leslie, I have no comment to add to your Dreamgirls review except that I agree with every word. Well, no - I thought Jamie Foxx was a little blah - but otherwise I agree with every word.
:)
MaineWriter:
Barb, I think you and I should go to the movies together...one of these days, right?
L
Ellemeno:
Late to the party - and just popping in to say I think An American in Paris should come off the over-rated list. George Gershwin and Gene Kelly - who could ask for anything more?
My sister's boyfriend's brother was on United Flight 93. I'm not ready to see it. Though I go through dark phases of scouring the internet about it every six months or so.
ednbarby:
--- Quote from: Ellemeno on January 21, 2007, 09:20:40 pm ---My sister's boyfriend's brother was on United Flight 93. I'm not ready to see it. Though I go through dark phases of scouring the internet about it every six months or so.
--- End quote ---
I can understand that. I think it's one of those things that when you're ready for it, you'll know. You go through hell watching it, even if you don't have such a personal connection. But you come out clean on the other side.
Getting back to The Last King of Scotland (obsessive much?) - this thought just occurred to me: the relationship between Idi Amin and Nicolas Garrigan is not unlike that between, ironically, Forest Whitaker's and Stephen Rea's in The Crying Game. But the roles are reversed this time. Amin is now the captor instead of the captive. Everything else is the same: the two of them are utterly infatuated with each other. And it's easy to understand why. They are both completely beguiling. The homoeroticism in this movie is now staying with me, and I suspect will for a long while. To a straight woman, there is nothing more electrifying - and heartbreaking - than the affection between two (apparently, anyway) straight men - especially when you care deeply about one (or both) of them.
My husband has a couple of such close friendships with men. And I envy his partners deeply. Because I know I can't give him what they do. We've been living together for 19 years. And we still get along exceedingly well on a platonic level. And yet he'll get on the phone with one of these two or three and laugh like I haven't heard him laugh since the early days. For hours. Similarly, I know that when I get on the phone with one of my two or three closest women friends, I can talk and laugh like that for hours. And he gets equally as jealous - to the point that he'll usually find some reason to interrupt me, even. I just don't do it as often as he, so he forgets.
The electricity between these two characters is palpable. They just understand each other. Instantly. Even though one comes from a very privileged background and one comes from a very disadvantaged one. They both speak the same language of Lack of Father Love. I guess it's so intoxicating when it's between two men because they don't let us in on that shit very often in real life. With us women, it's just modus operandi. What I love about this movie is that it doesn't force the Father/Son Conflict down our throats - just as Brokeback doesn't - it just lets it unwind slowly like a coiled spring, just as it would between people who understand each other instantly in the real world.
delalluvia:
Went and saw Miss Potter with Ewan McGregor and Renee Z. This movie can be described as achingly sweet and sincere and just nice nice nice. Think 'Neverland-lite'. Gonna buy this one when it comes out. ;D
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