Brokeback Mountain: Our Community's Common Bond > Brokeback Mountain Open Forum
"If your can't fix it, Jack...You gotta stand it."
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: atz75 on December 15, 2006, 11:03:48 pm ---Jeff, your discussion about changing emotional response to the film over all these months is really interesting. I think as we go along and these discussions continue to evolve, we'll all begin to notice really big shifts in emotional response. I sort of miss the early days... I mean in terms of my own emotional response.
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Tell you what, I don't miss my earlier response. When I think back now to how passionately I felt about some things, to the arguments I got involved in, I'm ashamed of myself and wish I could apologize to everyone I ever argued with, here and back at IMDb. I'm glad "this thing" seems to have lost its grip on me. :-\
Brown Eyes:
Well, I didn't mean to imply that BBM had lost it's grip on me. My fascination with it has just changed, that's all. And, Brokie fever, at least for me, definitely comes in waves. There was a time during the late summer when I thought I was calming down about all this. But, no. I wound up becoming intensely interested again, but in slightly different ways, and my activity around here only increased. :-\ Yeehaw!! :D :-*
OK, we should probably stop this and let the real topic of the thread resume.
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on December 16, 2006, 12:05:30 am ---wish I could apologize to everyone I ever argued with
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You can! Apology accepted, Jeff! ;D :laugh: ;D :laugh: ;D :laugh: ;D
Kidding. I know what you both mean, Jeff and Amanda. My emotional response has become a little less raw and intense, and at the same time it's a little less blissfully romantic than it used to be. I'm more pragmatic, a bit more willing to entertain the possibility of the slightly bleaker perspectives that Jeff used to promote ( ;D) in our arguments. The two phenomena might not be related.
I haven't watched the movie for a few months, and I'm not sure at this point whether watching it would be a good idea or not. I'd like to hold on to whatever intensity of emotion I can sustain, and I can't tell whether absence makes the heart grow fonder or familiarity breeds ... well, not contempt of course, but let's say desensitization.
I get sad whenever I see somebody say this -- for example, Mikaela's post earlier made me a bit melancholy. But it's sort of an inevitable part of the process. I'll never move on from BBM and think, "Oh, OK, been there done that, now I'm going to be obsessed with (fill in the name of some other movie) instead." No. Never. Not to sound too ridiculous, but it's more like a religion. After a while, my love for BBM has become a central part of my worldview -- a part of my soul, really -- so that even though it's still always there and always affecting the way I see things, it's not constantly on the surface of my consciousness. Does that make sense?
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: latjoreme on December 16, 2006, 02:57:28 am ---I'd like to hold on to whatever intensity of emotion I can sustain, and I can't tell whether absence makes the heart grow fonder or familiarity breeds ... well, not contempt of course, but let's say desensitization.
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I think I see what you're saying, but I wouldn't apply "desensitization" to my own current reactions. Even back in the old days of seeing the film in the theater, I would leave the theater feeling, somehow, spiritually uplifted--like church--and these days watching it still leaves me suffused with pleasure because I'm "with" Jack and Ennis, even in their pain. :-\
Front-Ranger:
I agree with you Jeff. There's something about the classical tragedy that draws people back over and over, and it's not a desire to wallow in morbidity. Somehow the most beautiful things are also the most tragic, in a way.
I can't watch the movie right now (I can't take no cake...) but I do relive the scenes in my mind, and I do look at the story everyday. It's getting so my briefcase is becoming not just the receptacle for work I have to do at home, but the ark of the covenant that I carry around with me for safekeeping, LOL!
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