lotty467
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Cinema.
I'd just like to float an idea.
I'd really like to share a film with you people, and I would happily buy you the film, but cannot because we must preserve our annonymity and personal details (good excuse, eh), but what does a dvd cost? Peanuts, if it truely is a very, very, very good film which you are so pleased that you took it into your life.
Well, I have such a film to offer you.
So, the idea is this, if you buy this film, then if you want to share a good film with me then I will buy that film, and in this way we will have bought eachother a film, you could say.
And if and when you watch this film then you, we, perhaps many of us, who knows, could post our comments on it, and we could see how it all works out.
Well, the first film I offer, in this way, is 'Wings of Desire' (1987) by Wim Wenders.
The film is absolutely full to the brim of superb stuff, and I post this clip merely as a taste, almost chosen randomly. I strongly recommend you give this film a go.....and be honest. If you think it was not to your liking, you can tell me that, too. Just good, honest, truthful comments, are always good, be them 'good' or 'bad'. Perhaps someone has seen the film already and can comment. Whatever.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtSJXiBgYzQ
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Mar/29/2009, 12:12 am
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lotty467
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Re: Cinema.
I was not long out of my teens when I saw 'Wings of Desire'. I'd moved from home to the city. I met new people, people from other backgrounds, so a lot was happening with new experiences, one such being finding myself invited to a night out at the cinema. It wasn't the picture house I was used to, as it was all arty and intellectual sophistication, which I never knew existed. When the film started it was in German! With subtitles! Read and watch at the same time! And then it was in black and white! I watched it as best i could whilst reading as fast as i could. There was lots I didn't understand, I think, and I'm sure I still miss some things, having seen the film about six times.
I found the film to be stimulating. There was some very powerful scenes, but the main ones which struck me are the library scene, and on the train (on youtube but no subtitles which are essential). I was so moved I think I could have wept. The notion of angels existing in this way touched my soul deeply. I'm emotional now just to think about it. Hearing people's inner personal concerns helped me to be able to empathise, and thus such things make your life a richer experience, I think.
I was very lucky to have not fallen in with a 'bad' crowd. I went to see more films at that cinema, and I think arty films have a place for us because they choose subjects which are personal to us, and the way they relate with you is asking you to question, to consider, to think, to wonder; whereas mainstream films just seem to 'tell you'.
Mainstream cimema has its place, too. I personally like 'Dirty Harry', and 'Easy Rider', and all kinds of things. I am going to see the new Clint Eastwood movie which I keep hearing the advert for on radio and he's saying 'Get off my lawn'. Can't wait.
I suppose most of us here will have seen 'Gaslight' (1944). I saw it for the first time only two months ago.
Last week, I was walking to pick my car up from the garage, and met an old lady who is distant family, so she knew me. I asked if she was alright because she looked stressed. She told me her jewellery had gone missing, her rings, a necklace, and the key to the door had gone. I went in her house and got her to calmly tell me all about it. She lives on her own. 80-odd. She started telling me that there were people living IN the wall, and that the cat knows all about it and the cat can see them and tells them things, and is in league with them, and that they come and she hears them talking all the time and she heard the woman saying she wanted the broad one which now she knows must have been the broad ring, and this is where the things have gone, taken by the people in the wall.
She was very worried, very frightened, very confused. Clearly dementia, of course. And we eventually found the missing items at the back of the cooking hob in the kitchen under some bread where she had put them for safe keeping. I stayed a while till she recovered enough. The relief she showed was strong. And it all made me think about 'Gaslight'.
Has anyone any favourite scenes from 'Gaslight' or other films?
Last edited by lotty467, Apr/7/2009, 5:22 am
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