to thine own self be true.

[gfrancie]

Ah the heatwave of summer. I take true delight in the moment. I will keep the funniest hours and sit up at three am, watching movies. Nothing casual. One night I watched Lawrence of Arabia, Manchurian Candidate and Reds.
I will sit on the sofa, in the dark, not moving and I am completely captivated by the screen as the heat is disappearing. Completely alone and totally happy. Sometimes I wish I could truly explain the emotion.
I have this yen to watch Chariots of Fire. It is a bit difficult to pin down in terms of emotional attachment. The two main characters (the scottish guy who runs for God and the Cambridge jew who runs for fame) both have their reasons and provide a sort of sympathy. Why one might root for one or the other. Yet I don't think that is entirely the point. It seems to examine this small moment in their lives. They go onto other things, but for a small moment in their youth they have this skill and they run for moment. Maybe the significance also comes from the period. It was just after the war and the upheavals within the world. It must have been this great joy to concentrate all this worth and importance upon running. in the Olympics.
I suppose one might say there are some cheap emotional moments, because of the music and that grand scene at the beginning with all of the young men running in the surf. Their heart and soul are tied to that and nothing else.
Sometimes it is nice to leave everything else behind and just be somewhere else.

Comments

[devo68.livejournal.com]

I love that movie and I love the Vangelis score. I sprinted in High School and at the time so understood all the pressure to perform. I wish I could feel that kind of all encompassing passion again...

[gfrancie.livejournal.com]

the only time I felt that sort of passion was when I was a dancer.
where did it go?

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[devo68.livejournal.com]

Beats the hell out of me. I'll let you know if I ever find it again.

[gfrancie.livejournal.com]

I don't feel apathetic, just sad about it.

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[devo68.livejournal.com]

I feel sad about cheese going bad.

[gfrancie.livejournal.com]

it's okay, I feel sad about movies and nothing else.

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[devo68.livejournal.com]

I feel sad about LJ sometimes.

[gfrancie.livejournal.com]

why do you feel sad about LJ sometimes Paul?

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[devo68.livejournal.com]

It has to do with time and space.

[gfrancie.livejournal.com]

that makes some sense

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[devo68.livejournal.com]

It does.

[photosexual.livejournal.com]

I will keep the funniest hours and sit up at three am, watching movies. Nothing casual. One night I watched Lawrence of Arabia, Manchurian Candidate and Reds.
I will sit on the sofa, in the dark, not moving and I am completely captivated by the screen as the heat is disappearing. Completely alone and totally happy. Sometimes I wish I could truly explain the emotion.

I'm with you on this one. I actually miss not doing it though. The years have changed me in lifestyle so that I haven't really been able to spontaneously get away with it. I'd opt for movies that I'm so familiar with that I can practically recite them line for line, or a favorite I haven't seen for ever and revisit a fear years later. Before I had VHS and DVD, I just did it on whatever late night tv offered, with those incredible Vern Fonk ads interrupting every 20 minutes.

[gfrancie.livejournal.com]

I love that game of just waiting to see what is on late night television. It makes it twice as exciting.

[ekdogg.livejournal.com]

I thought the English aristocrat who was a good runner, but a drunk was a trip!

Wasn't there a character who was the former coach of the Jew who could not be a coach in the Olympics? - I recall him listening to the radio and weeping after the Jewish character won.

[gfrancie.livejournal.com]

yes....I kind of like the removed sense of emotions within the movie, it felt more like I was merely observing these people.