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Secrets and Lies...
starboardlight:
Elle, I know what you mean about being in articulate when it come to talking about the movie, but when we all got together at La Cabaña, we all were plenty articulate. My impression of you and hpie are that you both were as intelligent and wellspoken as you have been on the board. I wonder maybe it's because we all had a mararita or two to loosen us up.
luigival:
--- Quote from: kirkmusic on April 30, 2006, 07:03:09 am ---The guy who'll hug a complete stranger in Flaggstaff, AZ who liked his karaoke performance of "Sara Smile." That's who I really am, and I'm behaving as that person with more and more regularity.
BBM hit me so hard because Ennis was so emotionally suppressed. Damn! do I relate to that. And what do you know, so do a lot of people here. I think secrets can be insidious if you don't tell anyone, but being selective about who you tell can be good judgement as long as it's not hindering who you are.
There was a quote I read some time ago, I forget who it was credited to, that went, "Never suppress a generous impulse." I've adapted that to "Never suppress an affectionate impulse." It's a very easy reminder to keep love at the forefront of my activities and my dealings with people.
As far as obsessions go, ours is of exceptionally high quality. I'm just guessing, but I'd be willing to bet that Trekkies and Star Wars fanatics don't get into these kinds of discussions. Brokies are pretty great folks. Both the dinner and movie I attended with 5 others of the brotherhood here in the Bay Area, and the phone conversation I had this morning with the NYC brunch crew were fantastic times. And these are people I never would have met otherwise. I don't come back to this board because I'm so into the movie anymore. I just like to check back in with all of you.
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Hi Kirk,
your comments were great, and I cannot agree with you more. Thanks for having having expressed many of my feelings as well,
Luigi
delalluvia:
Great post kirk. You go, boy!
As for:
As far as obsessions go, ours is of exceptionally high quality. I'm just guessing, but I'd be willing to bet that Trekkies and Star Wars fanatics don't get into these kinds of discussions.
Well, you'd lose that bet. After all, Trekkers and Star Wars nuts are people too and not all of them are pubescent fanboy geeks. The movies have made personal impacts in their lives as well. Whoopi Goldberg made mention of the reason 'Star Trek' was always so special to her. When she was a child, it was the first TV show she saw where she found a black woman in a futuristic society in a position of responsibility - "At least one of us made it" she was quoted as thinking. Of personal stories, the one that sticks in my mind was a lovely woman whose moniker was Undomiel. Several months into our enthusiastic discussion of 'The Attack of the Clones', she suddenly announced that DRL was going to interfere with her posting (DRL - Darth Real Life) as her cancer had returned. We all, of course, sent messages of hope and positive thinking, prayers and confidences of her continued well-being...
She never came back.
To this day, I hope she simply moved on to different interests...
Front-Ranger:
I'm so envious of all of you who can share this wonderful movie and experience with your significant others. Hang on to them; they're treasures! My experience is depressing...at least my 18-year-old daughter is enlightened and took me to see the movie for the first time. But my husband refuses to see it or even talk about it. I thought I knew him after bearing two children and spending two decades together, but I don't. I've been telling myself that he's just going through a mid-life crisis, but this has been going on for over five years! If it weren't for the children and the time I can spend here feeling like I'm among friends, I'd be long gone, or going batty, one or the other!
cmr107:
Thanks for bumping this thread, Kirk, I meant to post here a long time ago but didn't get around to it. Great post, by the way!
Like most other people here, no one I know 'gets it.' I have managed to have interesting discussions about symbolism and stuff with my mother, but she is one of the people who just thought it was a really good movie. Everyone else just sort of nods and smiles when I talk about it, so I stopped. Kirk, I think you're exactly right that we gravitate to people who share our experiences. The fact that we all seem to be like-minded people in many ways helps also.
At first, I felt weird about spending so much time talking to strangers online, because this is a new experience for me. Then I went more to the way of thinking of hey, how cool is it that I'm making friends from all over the world?
Yes, it's true that no one besides you guys know exactly how many times I saw it in the theatre (17!), but the reason for that is no longer the worry that people will think I'm crazy. I'm usually very open with sharing with friends and family strange things I do, I like telling stories. I'm much less open about my deeper feelings. BBM taps into deep feelings, so that makes it very personal and private to me. The experience of going to see it so many times, and of meeting people in person that I know from a message board would normally be something that I would tell people about. It's kind of nice to have a part of me that people don't know about.
I don't think this post made much sense, but there it is.
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