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Another Viewing... Starting to Zone Out & Reminded Of Other Things In My Past
Scott6373:
--- Quote from: Phillip Dampier on March 13, 2007, 03:42:06 pm ---Aigh... I cannot get away from this movie. I was eating lunch with the TV on and there was John Twist a/k/a Peter McRobbie sitting with his judge robes on in another case for Law & Order on TNT. This is getting weird. :o
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Go find John...make some new memories today...:)
Daniel:
Phillip, Having seen the film 24 times in a theater, I can safely say that I know exactly where you are coming from. I too experienced this verge of meaning and my mind and heart ached to be thrust into it, though for some reason I did not. It was not until recently that I felt the click and linked with the chain of greater meaning that seemed to be the underflow of the film, and of life, and of everything.
Now that I have felt that connection, I am experiencing life a little differently..... a great deal differently, I should say. I cannot even say what it is.... but those around me tell me that my stance has shifted, my expressions are different from what they once were, and that I bear a certainty of the self. When I have tried to explain what has happened to me to others, words fail me.... though it is strange that my poetry seems to bear that awareness more capably than any exposition I've been able to deliver. More and more, I find myself drawn to poetry and lyrics, for to me, they capture the essence of this new presence and can describe much where mere words and sentences fail to do so.
opinionista:
--- Quote from: Phillip Dampier on March 13, 2007, 03:42:06 pm ---Aigh... I cannot get away from this movie. I was eating lunch with the TV on and there was John Twist a/k/a Peter McRobbie sitting with his judge robes on in another case for Law & Order on TNT. This is getting weird. :o
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I saw that too! when I was home back in December. I was like, what is Jack's dad doing there? LOL
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: Scott on March 13, 2007, 02:05:04 pm ---A less layered, and more fundamental way.
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Interesting way to put it. I could say the same. But what I mean is that I'm somehow seeing it more as the "illustrated" version of Annie Proulx's story than I did in the past.
Brown Eyes:
--- Quote from: Phillip Dampier on March 13, 2007, 01:56:07 pm ---Now I am focused far more on the scenery and the things happening in the background.
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I think that the things going on in the background and the amazing little details of scenery, etc. are a major key to the movie. All those details make the movie sort of function like poetry to me.
For me one of the most interesting things about the whole BBM phenomenon in my own life is how it's become part of my daily life. There's hardly a day when I'm not online here, so of course on some level I'm thinking about BBM for a good amount of time everyday. It really has become just a normal part of the fabric of my day... or a major reference point for tons of stuff in my daily life. I liked what Scott said about it becoming bizarrely familiar.
--- Quote from: Scott on March 13, 2007, 02:05:04 pm --- as familiar as the shape of my face, or the color of my hair.
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This seems very true for me. But it doesn't make the movie any less intriguing to me.
One other interesting aspect of the "BBM phenomenon" for me, is that I'm still stuck in this (now very long) phase where I don't have much desire at all to watch other movies. I haven't been in a movie theatre for months and I don't have much interest in my DVDs, even of movies that I really love. I'm not interested in Jake or Heath's other movies really either... because for me it's not really about them. It feels really wierd to see Jake promoting another movie now. Mostly because that really does make BBM feel like a part of the past. This no-interest in movies (other than BBM) is very, very odd for me and I thought it would have passed by now.
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