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• His performance... as good as it was - sjb 16:13:21 01/29/09 (5)
  In Reply to: RE: AT LAST!!! posted by dave c on January 29, 2009 at 16:09:32

  wasn't enough to make me like/care about the film or, for the most part, the character.
  
  "The man is only half himself, the other half is his expression." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  
  

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  • GOSH - dave c 16:15:28 01/29/09 (4)
    In Reply to: RE: His performance... as good as it was posted by sjb on January 29, 2009 at 16:13:21

    I am not sure how his performance could be that good if you were left disinterested in the character.
    Still it's much better than us all agreeing!
    
    
    

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    • I also don't understand his reasoning. Rourke is a man-child, - tinear 16:59:21 01/29/09 (1)
      In Reply to: RE: GOSH posted by dave c on January 29, 2009 at 16:15:28

      and though he is extremely selfish, eventually he realizes it and tries--- I thought heart-breakingly--- to make some human contact, to show and receive love.
      His response when he realizes his hopelessness is not self-pity but, rather, courage. That elevated him far above his circumstances and made him a tragic figure.
      
      

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      • at the end (spoiler) - dave c 19:06:21 01/29/09 (0)
        In Reply to: RE: I also don't understand his reasoning. Rourke is a man-child, posted by tinear on January 29, 2009 at 16:59:21

        At the end when he chooses to wrestle (I nearly said "fight"!!!) instead of choose the girl, he goes with what he knows, not (in Springsteen's words accepting the Golden Globe(?)) not what nourishes him.
        The very last scene is beautiful in its silent sadness and inevitability.
        
        
        

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    • RE: GOSH - sjb 16:22:01 01/29/09 (1)
      In Reply to: RE: GOSH posted by dave c on January 29, 2009 at 16:15:28

      I think you (meaning me) can appreciate something without being moved by it or into it. Plus I didn't say it was THAT good... just that as good as it was (which I'll bet means different things to all of us) it wasn't enough for me to ultimately care.
      
      
      
      
      
      "The man is only half himself, the other half is his expression." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
      
      

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      • rather my feelings for 1973 jazz-rock - dave c 19:03:05 01/29/09 (0)
        In Reply to: RE: GOSH posted by sjb on January 29, 2009 at 16:22:01

        I could hear it going faster and faster, more and more notes and (a little anti-Mozart-ish) it didn't touch me at all.
        But on the other hand I would never have called those guys players of the year because I thought they missed the point.
        
        
        

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