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Kat - Dec 11, 2005 7:01:50 pm PST #6979 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

I had read the story after it was first in the New Yorker. And the short story didn't break me. It might have to do with my own age when I read the story, and that I read it at a time of immense personal hope.

Now, though, I feel it.

And Ang Lee kicked ass on it. The last movie of his that I saw and truly enjoyed was Eat, Drink, Man, Woman (and yes, I've seen Ice Storm, Sense and Sensibility and Crouching Tiger). The photography was majestic.

It was so good that I didn't even mind dealing with the clusterfuck of parking at the Grove on a Sunday right before Christmas. I sat in my car for 35 minutes to park, and never did make it to the garage. Parked on a side street. Got a ticket. Actually two.

I don't regret it at all.

Good enough that if my kids weren't tunrning in major work tomorrow, I'd take off work and go again.

§ ita § - Dec 11, 2005 7:07:51 pm PST #6980 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Oy. I don't think I'm going to see it until it opens wider. The Grove is a headache at the best of times. But you've sorely whetted my appetite. I can't wait to tell my sister.

Kat - Dec 11, 2005 7:09:06 pm PST #6981 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

As you know from the story, it's less hot cowboy love and more break-your-heart angsty cowboy love. I dunno how that will sit with your sister.

Kat - Dec 11, 2005 7:10:45 pm PST #6982 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

And, holy fuck, Heath Ledger was heartbreakingly brilliant as Ennis. Seriously.

§ ita § - Dec 11, 2005 7:14:42 pm PST #6983 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

She's read the story, so she'll be braced.

I love Heath Ledger, and am really glad he's had a chance to shine.

Burrell - Dec 11, 2005 7:15:18 pm PST #6984 of 10001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

Everyone says that Kat.

I am torn now. I really want to see it, but egad I don't need much instigation to sob these days.

Kat - Dec 11, 2005 7:21:08 pm PST #6985 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

I think you'd like it, Burrell. But yeah, heart ripping.

Ledger played Ennis the way I always want to see Othello played. Understated, close to the chest. Entirely damaged and broken, but in small ways, not overblown. In some ways, Ennis is Othellian, and the whole thing is sort of a modern cowboy shakespearean tragedy.

Pix - Dec 11, 2005 7:23:55 pm PST #6986 of 10001
The status is NOT quo.

I really do want to see it. Everything I've heard/read leads me to believe it will be one of the most amazing movies I will ever see in my life. I just think I need to wait until I can watch it out of the public eye, per se.

Kat - Dec 11, 2005 7:31:18 pm PST #6987 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

Possibly, Kristin. It's a pretty cold movie. And for a love story, it's more tragedy than romance.

Burrell - Dec 11, 2005 7:39:11 pm PST #6988 of 10001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

Mmm. The list of movies to see is long. Pride & Prejudice, Harry Potter, & now Brokeback Mountain. Oh dear. Not sure I can arrange enough babysitting.

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