Prayers for Bobby- Page 3

[Unknown User]

Posted: 1/28/09 at 11:49am

I did like this film, and thought they did mostly a great job. But I agree with some of the previous comments. And did anybody else think the gay bar Bobby first goes to was made to look like a dark, scary, seedy place full of predators eyeing him hungrily?

[xxnewgirlxx]

Posted: 1/28/09 at 11:51am

Well, that's what Bobby was taught his whole life, so it would make sense that was how he saw it...a bar full of sinners, like himself.

[DottieD'Luscia]

Posted: 1/28/09 at 11:52am

Sheldon, although the first bar scene came off kind of seedy, I just interpreted it as how one could be overwhelmed by it all. I remember the first time I went to a gay bar in NYC and feeling overwhelmed. I thought that scene captured it perfectly (IMO).

[JerseyGirl2]

Posted: 1/28/09 at 11:52am

Yep. I thought it almost looked like a gay bar from a bad 60s propaganda film, but I never went to a gay bar in an alley in the 70s.

Updated On: 1/28/09 at 11:52 AM

[snl89]

Posted: 1/28/09 at 11:52am

^I TOTALLY agree

As a story in itself, it was unbelievably poignant, upsetting, emotional... all that stuff. I mean, I watched it at like 10:00 last night and I'm still thinking about it right now. It really stuck with me.

But as a MOVIE? it was crazy rushed and a bit incoherent at points. But I think the ending really made a huge difference because it kind of... it made you stop and reflect on the movie far beyond it's inconsistencies as a movie. You know what I mean? As you listen to her speech in the end, you're not reflecting on the fact that some of the dialogue maybe could have been better in the beginning, or that everything felt really rushed. You're simply reflecting on the fact that what Bobby went through truly was beyond awful, and that this is a true story and there are people who go through this allll the time. So all that really transcends any reflection on the movie as a movie itself.

But yes, when you DO actually look at the movie itself, it definitely had quite a few weaknesses.

Still, though, I think the important thing is that the story really does transcend all that :)

[nealb1]

Posted: 1/28/09 at 12:21pm

In the issue of fairness, how can you possibly put 1 person's life, into a 2 hour movie? Squeezing all of that info, into a very small time frame....it's impossible. An earlier poster said that the film was poorly written. No, it wasn't. If you think you can do better........go for it..absolutely!

The scene of Bobby going to a gay bar for the first time, was filmed like he "thought" it would be.......full of sinners, on the prowl, etc.

The scene where he sees his bf coming out of the bar with another guy, just added to his confusion. Here he was calling him, leaving him messages, and he sees him with "another guy." We don't know who that other guy was. It was probably just a friend, but with Bobby being so confused, it just added to his desperation.

It was a wonderful, and uplifting film!

[Unknown User]

Posted: 1/28/09 at 1:23pm

I don't mean to pick on this film. It sort of felt like it had been edited heavily. This could easily have been a 2 part, 3 or 4 hour film. Maybe they will include some deleted scenes on the DVD.
For example, before his suicide, Bobby is working at a hospital or something? Was that ever set up? Did I miss exposition for that?

[JerseyGirl2]

Posted: 1/28/09 at 1:28pm

I think we were supposed to get that from the flash from him getting in the car at his parents' home to him wheeling the patient around.

[DottieD'Luscia]

Posted: 1/28/09 at 1:32pm

The brief hospital sequences kind of confused me. I thought that was happening in his mind as I couldn't figure out why he was there!

[morosco]

Posted: 1/28/09 at 9:24pm

Interesting interview with the real life Mary Griffith...

"I'd like to think," she says with a smile, "that Bobby is proud I finally got it right." Updated On: 1/28/09 at 09:24 PM