Ohh bedtime for you...poopie :-P
Hmm...I'm not gonna pretend it meant to me what it does to you, I do feel like I connected w/ the characters and really felt for them more than normal but..I think there are things that ppl at least like us who can enjoy some forms of art(like bway) as much as we do in other forms that can bring us to that level. But I mean...it's funny, Wicked had an effect like that on me, which is weird. I mean from the moment I saw it I bawled and I hardly cried at shows at that point and I mean I love the show but I still don't understand what it is about that show that just makes me feel so invested and connected and touched by it. And then it's great I've been able to apply it to my own life, and belt, albiet badly, Defying Gravity before I hafta do something really difficult, like when I had to sign up for comm. college last year after the breakdown...I sat in my car, belted it, and as I walked w/ my parents I sang it in my head the whole time, it really helped.
Umm...I'm trying to think if there's much else...well...again I don't know if any of these examples are comparable to what you're experiencing now, but at the very least they do somehow move me or I feel connected more than I do in a regular movie...Center Stage...it was weird, but when Amanda Schull is on that stage spinning and spinning, I always cry. Just after tortured she had been at classes, to triumph in that way...I mean it felt more powerful than a classic underdog story...like it's impossible for me to not just have this wonderful feeling when I finish watching that movie.
And Field of Dreams(w/ Little Mermaid my other fav movie). Well, this one makes perfect sense, but still...I love baseball so I understand that love, but also I...I struggle between some kind of view..I'm a huge pessimist and optimist, I'm a misanthrope and humanitarian. There's a part of me that's so pessimistic about humanity and the world and I'll say Earth is hell...but then there's another part of me, who is obsessed w/ the ideas of Utopias, has reread "Utopia" quite a few times, who refuses to give up of the idea of a utopia, of dreams coming true, of letting fantasies taking over, of happily ever afters, etc I guess you get the point. And FoD completely reached out to that part of me. It's like...I dunno, you could call it an unrealistic fairy tale, yet it's...presented realistically...I mean we're programmed to think these things could never happen, but as I watch...I just...buy it. I mean god, I could go on about this movie, but I don't know if you've or anyone on the thread has seen it and I don't wanna either give things away or go on about things no one will know what I'm talking about...but...I could go on and on about the themes of that movie, and how meaningful it all is and okay...I think FoD is my BBM. And just sitting here thinking about it, now I really understand what you are feeling now and well just...everything you've said. I just hope, FoD is very emotional, but very happy...BBM understandably is not, I hope that's not affecting your states these days, I mean it's so great to think about FoD b/c of the happiness it represents and Rent too ends w/ such hope, it makes me so happy to talk and think about it...well anyway, it really is wonderful to connect and love and be so affected by a movie
"If there was a Mount Rushmore for Broadway scores, "West Side Story" would be front and center. It snaps, it crackles it pops! It surges with a roar, its energy and sheer life undiminished by the years" - NYPost reviewer Elisabeth Vincentelli
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