Still more films to see
Dec. 27th, 2005 10:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
petroniaWatched Brokeback Mountain with sororial unit and Cedric. I... think I'm the only person I know who wasn't depressed by it. XD;; Most people seem to either weep buckets (sister) or go "Well, that was a downer," (Ced) but I came away with this quiet feeling. Like watching Mushishi (and then I had to take five minutes to explain Mushishi to my sister).
What I told her afterwards was - I thought they were lucky. Not being precious, that's really my instinctive response. How many people are there who scrape by, get along, have a spouse and kids and compromise every day until they're old and feel as if there should be something more to life but never know what "more" is? How many people spend each day dealing with the everyday, one little thing piled up on top of another, and have never had a green isolated place in their heart to which to retreat? Many more than have ever had a Brokeback Mountain, I'll bet.
She said I had a very optimistic take on it. XD
I don't know if I believe "'Tis better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all." But it's a question with which I struggle all the time, a central conundrum of my philosophy - were I to have a philosophy.
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In other news, I can't get my DVD burner to burn. = =+ It reads fine, but when it comes to burning it either rejects the disc or locks into a spin cycle until the OS crashes. I have a feeling the driver didn't install right, but it didn't come with a driver, so.
What I told her afterwards was - I thought they were lucky. Not being precious, that's really my instinctive response. How many people are there who scrape by, get along, have a spouse and kids and compromise every day until they're old and feel as if there should be something more to life but never know what "more" is? How many people spend each day dealing with the everyday, one little thing piled up on top of another, and have never had a green isolated place in their heart to which to retreat? Many more than have ever had a Brokeback Mountain, I'll bet.
She said I had a very optimistic take on it. XD
I don't know if I believe "'Tis better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all." But it's a question with which I struggle all the time, a central conundrum of my philosophy - were I to have a philosophy.
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In other news, I can't get my DVD burner to burn. = =+ It reads fine, but when it comes to burning it either rejects the disc or locks into a spin cycle until the OS crashes. I have a feeling the driver didn't install right, but it didn't come with a driver, so.
