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Re: A movie that really hit home
« Reply #15 on: February 17, 2009, 08:06:43 AM »
no prob's,
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Re: A movie that really hit home
« Reply #16 on: February 20, 2009, 09:38:10 PM »
And knowing is half the battle.

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Re: A movie that really hit home
« Reply #17 on: April 01, 2009, 09:46:16 AM »
Ive been thinking about this thread for awhile. So many movies have a temporary impact on me but thats usually just an entertainment effect. One that I remember actually changed my perception on life would be "Ordinary People". I came from a very outspoken Mom and understated Dad and always wondered how those two personalities ended up gel-ling.
 
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The film opens to a montage of shots depicting Chicago's North Shore to the tune of Pachelbel's Canon, which serves throughout as the film's main theme. The Jarretts, an affluent family, try to return to normal life after the attempted suicide of their youngest teenage son, Conrad, who has recently come home following a four-month stay in a psychiatric hospital. Alienated from his friends and family, Conrad, having left the hospital, chooses to continue seeing psychiatrist, Dr. Berger, who learns that the boy had been involved in a sailing accident that killed his older brother, Buck. Buck, a superior athlete and student to Conrad, clearly came first in everyone's estimation (including Conrad's). Calvin Jarrett, the father, awkwardly struggles to connect with his surviving son, who is tormented by clinical depression, survivor guilt, and post-traumatic stress disorder. His wife Beth, who clearly loved Buck more, has shut off her emotions and has become obsessed with maintaining the appearance of perfection and normality.

As Conrad successfully works with Dr. Berger and learns to allow himself to have feelings, he starts dating Jeannine, a kind and nonjudgmental girl from his school choir, and begins to regain a sense of optimism. However, the suicide of a friend from the hospital, Karen, threatens to send him spiraling back into depression.

Finally, Conrad is able to stop blaming himself for Buck's death, and the boy realizes his mother's frailties as Dr. Berger advises him to accept her as she is. Calvin, aided by a session with Dr. Berger himself, finally begins to recognize the degree to which Beth has emotionally isolated herself, not just from Conrad, but also from Calvin himself. Calvin confronts Beth about his new feelings, telling her that he questions his love for her, and inquires whether she is capable of truly loving anyone. As Beth packs to leave, her facade is momentarily shattered by a sob, but she struggles to restore the mask.

The next morning Calvin informs Conrad that Beth has left and Conrad's first reaction is to blame himself. Calvin at first angrily rebukes Conrad for taking that attitude, but then regrets losing his temper. They talk as each man continues to work through his regrets about their past relationship. But now, with each man having achieved some level of revelation and resolution with regard to Beth's feelings toward them, father and son are finally able to truly connect with another, and they embrace as the film ends.


The lesson that stuck with me is that if I have pain I would rather suffer openly than privately.

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Re: A movie that really hit home
« Reply #18 on: April 01, 2009, 11:00:19 AM »
"Ordinary People

 :o That's freaky kismet-ish. There's three times the mention of this movie has come in my path the last month. Now, this is the fourth. All four mentions were wildly unrelaed. I've only seen it once. I'll have to rewatch it. It's got meaning for me also. Very painful meaning. But, doable. I'll hunt it down and see it again soon.

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Re: A movie that really hit home
« Reply #19 on: April 01, 2009, 11:10:22 AM »
I only caught brief glimpses of this movie but I did have to read it in my American Lit class (I say "have to" but it was honestly a great book).  I could see this book having a lot of meaning and impact on people as I bet many people can intimately relate with at least one of the things afflicting the main characters.  It's a tragic story but one of healing too.
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Re: A movie that really hit home
« Reply #20 on: April 01, 2009, 11:32:04 AM »
but I did have to read it in my American Lit class

^ That's one of the four intersects... lol..well..not 'I'd heard dweez read it in lit' :P But, the fact that it was a book. I was in the library reading a book, and it cited the author of that book, and it mentioned how quickly that book had been picked up for movie rights. But..the book I was reading wasn't even about film. It just had a quote from the author of Ordinary People..then went off on a sid note about that movie. I can't explain it really..it was just a weird moment that stuck out. It was odd.. Like some force was 'willing' me to go watch that movie..and trying to do so through an unrelated topic matter :D ..it was weird..maybe I'd had library overdose. I almost pickd it up off the shelf and watched it that night. Freaky >_<  Now I'll have to make a note to read the book also :)

The other event was seeing a short few seconds of Donald Sutherland in The Dirty Dozen this weekend...and I'd started to think about back tracking and watching Donald Sutherland movies...

The third?.. too weepy ::)

The 4th? this thread.

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Re: A movie that really hit home
« Reply #21 on: April 04, 2009, 10:49:02 AM »
When I got home last night they'd looped a back to back showing of Am?lie Before I always thought I sat to watch bits of it because it's well made. Now I'm thinking it's also because I identify with it. Her demeanor is lots like mine. Some of her history is similar. Or similar enough. She views the world like I do. I dress like her lots of times. More importantly if a 'view of the world' were going to be filmed from my perspective..the 'way' the movie is put together would reflect me. The colors..the whimsy..the randomness..all of it.

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Re: A movie that really hit home
« Reply #22 on: April 05, 2009, 05:23:48 PM »
^ @ Skadi, that is quite a match, it is surprising how fiction can sometimes be so real. Maybe in a way it proves that deep down we are all the same and think and feel the same.

Honestly speaking, to find a movie i can relate to close enough is something i havent "achieved", and i am sure i never will, there are things about me that can hardly happen to anyone (in a very serious manner  :( )

Since I have to name one, it would be "The Fountain", a movie made in 2006, based on a novel, it is "complex" to say the least. I would recommend all of you especially Skadi to watch it. I wont describe it since it is different for everyone how they perceive it. If you have already seen it, watch it once more, for me.  :)

Personally i'd say it summarizes this for me:

"Fear only the truth to defeat fear. Truth is the Truth of everything, deep within us it resides, we already know it but fear clouds it. Have the courage to reject your reality, your surroundings and you will see the actual reality. Have the courage to accept it. Use your weakness to become great, and what is the greatest weakness of man BUT MORTALITY. How ironic it is then that in death lies Immortality. You just have to touch it or as they say "FINISH IT!" ".

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Re: A movie that really hit home
« Reply #23 on: April 06, 2009, 10:55:43 AM »
^ I was originallyl really excited to see that. Then I didn't see it because I didn't want to watch it and be dissapointed. Mostly because at the time the director had the rights to do Lone Wolf and Cub..which I really didn't want to see flubbed. So for weird reasons I ended up not watching it.

Now you suggested it though, I'll watch it  :)

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Re: A movie that really hit home
« Reply #24 on: April 06, 2009, 11:22:53 AM »
:) and again  :)

.....................I just watched Amelie, and I have to say this:

             " Aah  :) , now thats how movies should be made, just  :) . Its actually funny how some of the things just seem to be from your own life, or maybe thats just a few of us, most of my friends would find it Uber Girlie but for me its serenity. I think that word doesnt fit it completely but more or less".
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Re: A movie that really hit home
« Reply #25 on: April 17, 2009, 07:58:44 AM »
^ Amelie ..heh..I hadn't thought about it being 'girlie' I suppose it is. At least it's unconventionally girlie ::)


The Fountain-

I would recommend all of you especially Skadi to watch it. I wont describe it since it is different for everyone how they perceive it.

^ Is it the Eduardo Galeano connection? ?or just general stuff I talk about?

I liked it. And it?s what I expected originally, so I should have seen it when it first came out. I was afraid if it was bad, it would stress me out about Lone Wolf and Cub. Which I think he released rights to right after that anyway, so won?t direct it after all. I haven?t followed up on that in awhile.

Anyway.. the movie? If people wanted edgy sci-fi..they might have been disappointed. But if you like ethereal movies, you?d like The Fountain. I also liked that it blended myth, sociology, and science. I love those three subjects anyway, but all 3 wound together into an ethereal story about life and love made it very cool. I?m glad I finally got to see it.



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Re: A movie that really hit home
« Reply #26 on: April 19, 2009, 02:10:10 PM »
Someone recommended the documentary "The Corporation" to me recently and I watched it over the weekend. I seriously think that schools should require it students to watch this film before then can graduate!! If for nothing more, to argue and research the information that it exposes. EXCELLENT and informative film. As a matter of fact I made a copy to take to work and loan out to people that want to see it. Some I would like to tie to a couch and MAKE them watch it.

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Re: A movie that really hit home
« Reply #27 on: June 16, 2009, 08:52:34 PM »
Ive heard about that movie, havent had a chance to sit down and watch it yet though.
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Re: A movie that really hit home
« Reply #28 on: June 17, 2009, 12:10:52 AM »
i re-watched The Game last night.

a slow moody film which i absolutely love.

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Re: A movie that really hit home
« Reply #29 on: June 17, 2009, 08:25:04 AM »
The one with Michael Douglas and Sean Penn?  I really enjoy that movie a lot.
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