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luigival:
Final installment, or part five of my BBM Saga: the second and final Italian experience.

A new trip to Catania in mid February provided the much needed chance to go back to that old and big cinema, for a new viewing. BBM was still playing there, but had been moved from the large viewing room - now dedicated to “Walk the line” - to the smaller one, and only another five viewers were there besides me.

But the true, genuine surprise, came when finally BBM arrived at the cinema in the town where I live, here in Sardinia. We were now already in mid March, and I was able to get to the local theatre with a movie buddy: my only shared BBM experience so far. Didn’t expect too many viewers that late afternoon, but when we got to the theatre where also Prime was playing, to my great surprise, we had to actually queue for entering as everybody seemed to be heading for BBM, leaving Prime almost deserted.
More or less 120 viewers were there, the cinema being almost full, and quite an interested and well-responding public too. My friend, a straight married guy, was caught by the story and liked it greatly: he confessed me he had preferred the first part of the story, with its Eden-like atmosphere. Pity the theatre operator cut almost completely the end titles, parting us from the two final songs. On exiting the comments I heard from anybody else around us, male or female, were enthusiastic:“Bello”, “Molto bello”, “Bellissimo”. Somebody was even calling friends on the cell phone to say how a beautiful movie BBM was. I couldn’t hear a single bad comment. And right on exiting, I met a colleague and his wife, whom I discovered had been somehow recently caught by a slight form of BBM-fever as well. For them it was the second viewing, and they both hadn’t anything else but enthusiastic words for the movie and the story. We laughed at a funny episode as they had bought a few days before an illegal copy of the DVD (which has not yet been released here in Italy), from a Napolitan guy. As they had imagined, though, it turned out to be a completely unviewable fake registered by using a cell phone during a viewing session at a cinema! People from Naples always surprise me for their creativity... At a Naples cinema where BBM was playing, they even invented the marketing glitch that to whoever declared being gay, entrance was free!!
BBM stayed at the local cinema here for the whole week, and I think was quite a success, but I didn’t have a chance to wiew it again.
Two days ago I finally received my original DVD copy, pre-ordered almost two months ago at Play.com - think shall inform that colleague to buy it - so can now cure my BBM fever at home, though the disease is now beginning to gradually fade away, somehow. Time and everyday life are undoubtedly the best cure for any kind of disease.

And so now here I stand, continuing my journey through life, sharing that feeling of some open space between what I know and what I try to believe. Forever.

Luigi

Aussie Chris:
Well done Luigi, thanks for sharing your story.

luigival:
Grazie Chris!

Front-Ranger:
Luigi's story, and he still comes back to post another chapter every once in a while...every four effing years months!

luigival:

--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on February 07, 2007, 11:26:57 am ---Luigi's story, and he still comes back to post another chapter every once in a while...every four effing years months!


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Yeah Lee, thank you so much for remembering me and requoting my story! Saw once more BBM yesterday evening - still on this month here in Italy on Sky TV, which has devoted the cover page of their monthly program guide to our beloved movie, electing it as the movie of the month -. Good to see BBM is still going so strong and making people still speak of it.
I wish I knew how to quit this story, ...but I can't!

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