Sunday Afternoon
while not exactly a light-hearted romp for a Sunday afternoon, i'm pretty sure i'll be heading to The Mayfair after work today for The Deer Hunter playing today @ 1:30pm...Didi Mau! Didi Mau! heh...
i saw this film for the first time when it came out in theatres [i was 7 or 8...i was a pretty advanced kid] and it really moved me...it's an excellent Vietnam war film, up there with Apocalypse Now with being able to touch on what my father [who, while estranged i have met him a few times in my youth], who is a Vietnam vet calls the 'real feelings of that war'...for him he says he has a hard time watching both of those films because they have elements that he feels so accurately portray what it felt like to be there; the insanity of it, the incredible intensity, stresses and surreal complete change in realities that's a bit too close to home for him...and i've got a little bit of an interest in grittier, truer portrayals of that war, or moreso the effects of the war on those there, most likely because he's estranged i suppose...
SO i'm as positive as i can be at 7am on a Sunday morning @ work that i'll be making the 1:30pm showing today...it's the only showing for this movie this month or next, so if anyone wants to come, come today and i'll be heading down with my co-worker so i'll see you there...and if you don't know it, it's a good way to finally get all those references to it [didi mau!] that you've always missed :)
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on a personal note, i am so much stronger than i ever thought i could be...go me...doesn't mean i don't hurt though...hell, who knew you even could hurt this much without losing a limb...? but i'm in such a different place now...
i saw this film for the first time when it came out in theatres [i was 7 or 8...i was a pretty advanced kid] and it really moved me...it's an excellent Vietnam war film, up there with Apocalypse Now with being able to touch on what my father [who, while estranged i have met him a few times in my youth], who is a Vietnam vet calls the 'real feelings of that war'...for him he says he has a hard time watching both of those films because they have elements that he feels so accurately portray what it felt like to be there; the insanity of it, the incredible intensity, stresses and surreal complete change in realities that's a bit too close to home for him...and i've got a little bit of an interest in grittier, truer portrayals of that war, or moreso the effects of the war on those there, most likely because he's estranged i suppose...
SO i'm as positive as i can be at 7am on a Sunday morning @ work that i'll be making the 1:30pm showing today...it's the only showing for this movie this month or next, so if anyone wants to come, come today and i'll be heading down with my co-worker so i'll see you there...and if you don't know it, it's a good way to finally get all those references to it [didi mau!] that you've always missed :)
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on a personal note, i am so much stronger than i ever thought i could be...go me...doesn't mean i don't hurt though...hell, who knew you even could hurt this much without losing a limb...? but i'm in such a different place now...