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#26

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Posted: 10/7/11 at 1:07pm

The 'let go' scene shatters my heart... absolutely shatters it.

Davison's reserve in that scene, coupled with the tremulous quiver in his voice, slays me every time.

"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe." -John Guare, Landscape of the Body

#27

Longtime Companion

Posted: 10/7/11 at 1:16pm

I always admire that little moment Davison has later, when he admits to his young friends how "not strange" it is.

"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers." Thomas Pynchon, GRAVITY'S RAINBOW "Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." Philip K. Dick My blog: http://www.roscoewrites.blogspot.com/

#28

Longtime Companion

Posted: 10/8/11 at 5:44am

A great film imho, even though cinema isn't a strong area of interest for me.

The scene where Fuzzy, who is so sensible throughout the rest of the film, is on his own and lip syncs to Dreamgirls acknowledging the camera (as I recall) as though it is his own alterego, is remarkable.

Hence me remarking on it.

#29

Longtime Companion

Posted: 10/9/11 at 12:13pm

I forgot how much I love this movie until reading this thread. I am going to have to rent it soon!

#30

Longtime Companion

Posted: 10/9/11 at 12:44pm

I actually watched the film again yesterday, after the discussion on this thread. (For those interested, it is available on YouTube in its entirety) Even having seen it recently, it still brought me to tears in all the places it usually does. Some people I know have tried to marginalize the film due to its obvious sentimentality--a friend compares it to a Lifetime movie--but I definitely think it's one of the foundational films in contemporary gay cinema. It's right up there with PARTING GLANCES and MAKING LOVE for me.

#31

Longtime Companion

Posted: 10/10/11 at 8:00pm

A true jewel from the late, lamented American Playhouse. The whole cast was brilliant and Craig Lucas' script was funny and devastating.

"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.” ~ Muhammad Ali

#32

Longtime Companion

Posted: 10/10/11 at 8:19pm

Beautiful movie. I could never listen to "The Tide is High" in the same way again.

I think Pesci was definitely Oscar-worthy--it's his co-star who got the shaft! I was very irritated when Whoopi Goldberg won Best Supporting Actress for Ghost. Lorraine Bracco was far superior. JANICE ROSSI IS A WHORE!

#33

Longtime Companion

Posted: 10/11/11 at 2:33pm

The ending of the film is just so heartbreaking. It's a wonderful movie.

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