Posted by dove on July 5, 2001, at 17:29:00
In reply to Re: Movies ..., posted by Willow on July 3, 2001, at 22:42:08
I haven't connected with anyone in a while, but this subject provides some much needed literal conversation :o)
"The Pledge" was a moving drama on a couple of fronts, and pleasantly surprised me with a non-Hollywood ending. Although, that doesn't mean the movie's conclusion was bad or good (don't want to ruin it for anyone). It had some painful moments and some very lonesome and unnoticed victorious moments, and should not be viewed with the "...everything is beautiful" or "...they all lived happily ever after" mentality. It's a realistic film with real people faces and real people behavior and that's not always a very happy sight.
"Magnolia" is a difficult and challenging flick. However, it moved me so greatly that I am still compelled to ponder the true path of redemption and renewal in light of this film. This is a long flick, but if you can get beyond all the window-dressings you will find a movie so incredibly deep, portraying humanity and the human psyches in its intrinsic failures and victories, fragility and tyrannicalness, mortality and divinity, morality and godlessness, and the foreshadowing of past, present and future. What we hold on to is so important, the "stuff" we hold close to our hearts, as well as the "stuff" we throw away without a second glance. It drove me to look blatantly and truthfully at my own life, my own pain, my own patterns of behavior and thought, and where all these things originate. I am still working through it :o)
"**Requiem for a Dream**" was an incredibly mind-blowingly intense and heartbreaking movie, I could hardly stay in my seat and stave off my jerking hiccupping sobs to watch it. Tears, unbidden flowed down my cheeks as I watched what people do to themselves, just one little choice to go around corner "A" results in many more disastrous choices such as following "B" Street and turning left.
This is the absolute *BEST* anti-drug movie I have ever seen, *ever*!!! It is a real drug addiction flick, with positively *no* preaching, and we're talking OTC pills, DX Pills, Illegal, Legit, everything and anything that puts the human heart into dire bondage. The movie portrays a family and their close friends, which can be mere unsympathetic acquaintances, childhood friends, or lovers. Rapidly the film dives into the characters' deepest and darkest corners, and there you discover that these people are very much like lots of other people. They want attention, affection, bonding, dreams, achievements, love, and acceptance; all those things most intimate and impelling to our own hearts.
I highly recommend this film to those emotionally able to handle the very grave and perilous journey this film embarks on, and I would add the same precaution to "Magnolia" as well.
Keep talking everyone, I've missed you all so much!!!
dove
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