Friday, February 03, 2006
First time for everything...
Or,in today's case,the first time i was moved to tears by a movie.It was a rendition of the pulitzer prize winning play,Wit,by Ms Margret Edson.Directed by Mike Nichols.My god.It was one sad movie.It wasn't thrashy romance like,Snort,Titanic.It didn't have some pathetic simpering heroine looking with unrequited yearning in some moronic pretty boy's eyes.
On a side note,women aren't like that.They're so much stronger.God have mercy on your soul,if you find out the hard way. So anyways,Death wasn't potrayed as a breaking of lover's union,It was potrayed in all the glory and justice of John Donne's Holy Sonnets.It was potrayed in depth. The movie...showed,death in the eyes of a Scholar,In the eyes of an intellectual.It came first,in all it's multi facets,all it's many levels.All it's many sides.And then,intellect was thrown aside.It succumbed to simplicity.Simple terms.Because,a professor in 17th century poetry finally saw it it as it happenedd to her.Death,with his scythe,to a philosopher.It was a beautiful show,Strangely uplifting.And coupled with grevious,well,wit.There was humour,but you didn't want to laugh.Such Humour it was!Never seen it before.The like of which will live with me forever.It opened my eyes...It opened my heart.Such a movie it was,such a movie.You would know what was in store,You would know,expect,the tragic end.But...You would keep watching.I didn't know why.Heart wrenching,to see the final days of Ms Vivian Bearing being played out.Her life,the excellent use of stage play in a movie...Amazing.How the doctor would start using the past tense while describing her.The cold...stupidity of the doctors..I could not bear to watch it again.And for that,it remains one of my favorite movies.An intellectual journey that strays from the path television stupidity.It was a fantastic flim.Go and watch it.Idiots would get bored.It was captivating.
So what did i do after the movie?Call and bother Christine of course.
"Brevity is the soul of Wit."-Margret Edson's WIT.
Most touching line: "I am a scholar.Or...i used to be.When i had shoes,and eyebrows..Haha."
: 10:06 AM
