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Post by Amanda on Mar 15, 2007 19:53:31 GMT -5
I know exactly what the two of you mean. Words just can't do it. Which is why something like a video would be so important in a situation like this. You can tell a lot more about someone's intentions and feelings when you can see them instead of just reading their words from a page-- or computer-- and I'm really interested to see these submissions.
I'm kind of the opposite of you, though, Kim. Deaths and things don't make me more numb to the feelings or more skeptical to the way they're portrayed or anything. It makes it a lot more raw to me.
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Post by kaliszewski on Mar 15, 2007 20:57:03 GMT -5
I'm not numb. I'm never numb. That's the problem. It's more like I'm all raw all the time. My primary motivator is anger. When I can channel it into writing or dumb humor or a combination of the two, I'm okay. When I have a "hit-the-wall" day (metaphorically or realistically speaking: your choice  ): that's when things get ugly. I'm frustrated over the release date. I'm frustrated over what I'm perceiving-- again-- as a somber parade of slaughter. (The "last message" thing simply strikes me as depressing and awful.) If Cillian Murphy weren't on board on this production, I wouldn't be seeing it. Paradoxically, though, if he weren't on board and I were to see it, I'd enjoy it more. The idea of Capa going off to certain doom doesn't strike me as heroic or dramatic: it just seems sad. Weird, huh...? But I'm about twenty years further down the road than most of you: maybe I'm a little more worn out. That old saying-- "That which does not destroy me makes me stronger"? I've modified it slightly: "That which does not destroy me WEAKENS ME so that SOMETHING ELSE can destroy me." Oh, well. Speaking of agony: time t' work! |
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Post by Amanda on Mar 15, 2007 22:08:53 GMT -5
I think you deal better than I do, though. Well, that depends, but anway-- I can't seem to hide behind the humor or anything like you do. I just kind of keep packing it away until there's just some trigger and BLAM everything goes to sh(i)t for a week or two. Not to mention that my mother's a psychologist and I do that crappy psychoanalyzation thing on myself.
You know, I really don't know why we torture ourselves and watch films like this anyway, especially when we all know what's going to happen. It's like begging to relive the saddest moments of your life by getting attached to the characters and then watching them get picked off one by one.
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Post by chero on Mar 16, 2007 1:09:14 GMT -5
Fanfiction keeps them alive. |
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Post by aroreiel on Mar 16, 2007 8:10:17 GMT -5
That video of Capa left me with a lump in my throat. It's good to see that vulnerability coming out, no matter how slight. Sometimes just words are all people need, but with the visuals to go with those words makes it more profound to me, I guess. Because even if that person is trying to convince someone that things will be okay, the eyes never lie. Well, that's what i think anyway.
Other than 'I love you', I honestly wouldn't know what to say in a situation like that. Knowing how emotionally rocky I get, I'd probably burst into tears, which isn't a good thing. Oh heck, it is quite a depressing thing really.
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Post by kaliszewski on Mar 16, 2007 9:50:30 GMT -5
Fanfiction keeps them alive. Yeah... thanks.  But I can't help but run under the sense that they're not supposed to be alive. That's why I wanted to get my prequel bits out chronologically as prequels. Have no business letting it bug me, since they're not my characters, but it has been.... And: messages-- That YouTube thing strikes me as a little morbid. Soul-baring on the 'net as part of a studio's marketing strategy-- I dunno. Something about that makes me uncomfortable. If it were me, though, and it came down to brass tacks-- and I'm an editor and not an actor-- or an astronaut-- or an actor playing an astronaut facing Certain Death, thank God-- I'd probably just talk about everyday things and then send Ye Olde Intended Recipient off to listen to my Straitjacket Fits album-- the one with "Swirl" on it. Either that or the Catherine Wheel album with "Goodbye" on it. And depending on who the recipient was, I might just sign off with the immortal words of Mr. Furious: "I just want you to know-- if I don't come and see you tomorrow, it's because I'm dead." I'd have to find a chuckle in it somewhere-- for crying out loud, a spaceship can only carry so much Kleenex--! |
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Post by Amanda on Mar 25, 2007 10:41:18 GMT -5
This is annoying, but does anyone know the music from that site? It gives me goosebumps every time I hear it...
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Post by sunshinedna on Mar 25, 2007 10:47:39 GMT -5
It *SHOULD* give you goosebumps, Amanda! It's the music from *that* scene, the first 'big' scene (the one I cry at every single time)!!
Oh. I can't wait for the soundtrack to come out.
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Post by Amanda on Mar 25, 2007 10:49:26 GMT -5
I KNEW IT!
Wait, sorry, I have to edit this:
I just meant that I knew it had to have been in the film. I knew I'd heard it and there was a psychological reason for it to give me chills.
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Post by nimue on Jun 26, 2007 1:35:25 GMT -5
Haven't been able to visit it yet. Uh-oh... I've been hanging around this forum for a long time now and my classes will start in a couple of minutes. Will visit the new link and will be back in this forum to post my thought after classes.  |
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): that's when things get ugly. I'm frustrated over the release date. I'm frustrated over what I'm perceiving-- again-- as a somber parade of slaughter. (The "last message" thing simply strikes me as depressing and awful.) If Cillian Murphy weren't on board on this production, I wouldn't be seeing it. Paradoxically, though, if he weren't on board and I were to see it, I'd enjoy it more. The idea of Capa going off to certain doom doesn't strike me as heroic or dramatic: it just seems sad.
