Will we find the monolith of our time?
We became men when we learned to think. Our minds have given us the tools to understand where we live and who we are. Now it is time to move on to the next step, to know that we live not on a planet but among the stars, and that we are not flesh but intelligence.
- Roger Ebert on Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey
"There are millions of people in this world.
But in the end, it all comes down to one."
- Nicole, Crazy/Beautiful(2001)
심장이 뛰는것을 느낄수있었다. 쉴 틈이 없던 액션영화를 볼때의 요동치던 느낌과는 달랐다. 긴박감이 아닌 온전하고 차분하면서도 흥분되는 표현하기 힘든 이 느낌... 단순하기만 한, 일상에서 반복되는 그런것이 아니다. 오랫동안 잠재되어있던 수많은 감정들, 바램들, 아쉬움들이 한꺼번에 표현되어지고 그것을 다시 곱게 되세기며 그것들과 이제 작별을 하는것이다.
어릴적의 너무나도 아름다운 추억은 이미 지나간 일에 불과한 것이다. 앞으로 나아가야만 하는 우리들. 마지막 토노오의 나지막하면서도 시원한 미소는 과거에 얽매여 있던 자신을 기찻길과 아카리의 뒷모습을 끝으로 드디어는 앞으로 나아갈 준비가 된 것이 아닐까. 과거의 환상에 젖어있는 우리들에게 이제 앞으로 나아갈 시간이 왔다고 마코토 감독은 말해주고 있는것이 아닐까.. 생각해본다.
"Yes it is.
I want you to be happy.
More than anything else I wanted to be the cause of happiness in you.
But if I'm not, then I can't stand in the way, you see?
Because what you're feeling now, Rachel, is the unstoppable force.
Which means that I've got to move."
I'll be honest. I used to have so called "homo-phobia." I used to become so grossed out at anything homo--I just couldn't understand why they'd go after someone that has their.. tool (you know what I mean..).
Then over the last few years, I started to think differently. I guess all those TV shows and movies made my perception change a bit. Then, over the last winter, I actually got to get to know some gays and lesbians--working at a department store tends to provide excellent opportunity for meeting them in person. This finally got me to accept them. They are people just like any others who have their own lives, likes and dislikes, habits, schedule... and, of course, their own love life.
This movie opened my mind to those people without any effort on my side. The love story it had is something that anyone can relate to. But then, the couple that the story is centered around are women, not a man and a woman. Besides that one small thing, everything else is just like any other stories... love, hate, conflict... And the characters being adorable also helped, too.
On a side note, I was surprised to see the old British people were so natural with gays. I mean, old parents, in an American TV show about lesbians, were freaking out when they found out about their daughter is in fact homosexual. The family went through a huge drama to accept that fact, but in this movie, the parents of a daughter, who is married to a man already, accepted the fact that she was a lesbian, and that she is maddly in love with another woman so easily. Maybe it's because it is a movie. But more British movie I watch, more I am astonished at how fast their society move forward..
And will I let go of my love like Hect? I think I will. And I will probably kill myself afterwards.. Just kidding. I think..
Yes! I knew it was her...
a woman who stood behind the king of braves
when the world turned against him...