Well, it's not supposed to be *not* disturbing. It's pretty clear throughout that she is cohabiting with an actual dead person, and that his return in response to her total inability to move on may be deeply comforting to her, but it's not healthy and it's emphatically not life.
Everybody dies, Tracey. Someone's carrying a bullet for you right now, doesn't even know it. The trick is to die of old age before it finds you.
Mal ,'The Message'
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JZ - Mar 06, 2013 11:07:20 am PST #23626 of 30000
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
le nubian - Mar 06, 2013 11:19:19 am PST #23627 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
I love that movie for its meditations of love, life, and grief. It is really powerful to me. The first time I saw it, I had a really good cry.
JZ - Mar 06, 2013 11:29:03 am PST #23628 of 30000
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
I just rewatched the brief scene with Nina and Jamie on her back steps, as he's telling her about the little girl named Alice who often goes back to the playground she used to love when she was alive, and she's folding her laundry, and they slide easily from the parents at the playground seeing Alice's memorial plaque and holding their living children all the tighter, to the most placidly mundane couple-y bickering. So many little grace notes.
Beverly - Mar 06, 2013 11:32:32 am PST #23629 of 30000
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
moments like Jamie reciting the Spanish poem and later withdrawing from Nina's world in Truly Madly Deeply.
Loves JZ. And yes to the disturbing and the cathartic cry. And the love.
Actually, I credit TMD for introducing me to Neruda, the same way the Perlman/Hamilton Beauty and the Beast introduced me to Rilke many years ago. In my world of a southern US public school education heavy in Home Ec and softball and light in classic literature, far from distracting me from reading, tv pushed me to read more widely, with more curiosity and understanding.
Um. Where'd that soapbox come from?
Scrappy - Mar 06, 2013 11:33:01 am PST #23630 of 30000
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
I adore that film beyond all reason.
erikaj - Mar 06, 2013 11:34:27 am PST #23631 of 30000
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-
As much as I liked it at the time, all I remember now is "There are ghosts in my house watching videos." But that still makes me laugh.
JZ - Mar 06, 2013 11:36:57 am PST #23632 of 30000
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
My house is full of dead people! And why are they all men?
beekaytee - Mar 06, 2013 11:41:27 am PST #23633 of 30000
Compassionately intolerant
I truly love TMD with all my heart.
The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore scene is one of my top three most romantic moments in cinema, ever.
JZ - Mar 06, 2013 11:43:03 am PST #23634 of 30000
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Juliet Stevenson said that when they did that scene, Minghella blasted the song and all the crew was dancing. We only see Nina and Jamie, but they're actually in a crowded room full of crazy giddy dancers.
beekaytee - Mar 06, 2013 11:44:42 am PST #23635 of 30000
Compassionately intolerant
This makes total sense to me, as I always dance around when I play the youtube clip!!
There is just JOY in it.