Meme, day 7 and a review of Bright Star
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prosodic1. Post about something that made you happy today even if it's just a small thing.
2. Do this everyday for eight days without fail.
3. Tag eight (or as many as you want) of your friends to do the same.
What made me happy today? Seeing Bright Star, even though I was sobbing by the end of the film. It was very, very difficult to sob silently, believe me, although I could hear other people in the audience sniffling, so I know I wasn't the only one.
This film is GORGEOUS. Everything about it is stunning. The music, the cinematography, the acting. I was blown away. Abbie Cornish's portrayal of Fanny Brawne is breathtaking. The scene where she finds out that John Keats died (this is not a spoiler, if you know anything about the British Romantic poets)...her reaction. Oh my God. Heartbreaking. That's when I completely lost it.
I really hope Jane Campion gets nominated for an Oscar. I think Abbie Cornish should be nominated too.
I even loved the ending credits. The actor who played Keats (Ben Whishaw) reads Keats' poetry over the ending credits. Brilliant. And it kept the audience in their seats.
I hated that I had to go see this alone, but I'm so glad that I saw it. If you like happy endings, this is not a film to see. But it's based on a true story and an amazing love - tragically cut short - that was the inspiration for some of Keats' work.
Bright Star
Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art--
Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night
And watching, with eternal lids apart,
Like nature's patient, sleepless Eremite,
The moving waters at their priestlike task
Of pure ablution round earth's human shores,
Or gazing on the new soft-fallen mask
Of snow upon the mountains and the moors--
No--yet still stedfast, still unchangeable,
Pillow'd upon my fair love's ripening breast,
To feel for ever its soft fall and swell,
Awake for ever in a sweet unrest,
Still, still to hear her tender-taken breath,
And so live ever--or else swoon to death.
2. Do this everyday for eight days without fail.
3. Tag eight (or as many as you want) of your friends to do the same.
What made me happy today? Seeing Bright Star, even though I was sobbing by the end of the film. It was very, very difficult to sob silently, believe me, although I could hear other people in the audience sniffling, so I know I wasn't the only one.
This film is GORGEOUS. Everything about it is stunning. The music, the cinematography, the acting. I was blown away. Abbie Cornish's portrayal of Fanny Brawne is breathtaking. The scene where she finds out that John Keats died (this is not a spoiler, if you know anything about the British Romantic poets)...her reaction. Oh my God. Heartbreaking. That's when I completely lost it.
I really hope Jane Campion gets nominated for an Oscar. I think Abbie Cornish should be nominated too.
I even loved the ending credits. The actor who played Keats (Ben Whishaw) reads Keats' poetry over the ending credits. Brilliant. And it kept the audience in their seats.
I hated that I had to go see this alone, but I'm so glad that I saw it. If you like happy endings, this is not a film to see. But it's based on a true story and an amazing love - tragically cut short - that was the inspiration for some of Keats' work.
Bright Star
Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art--
Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night
And watching, with eternal lids apart,
Like nature's patient, sleepless Eremite,
The moving waters at their priestlike task
Of pure ablution round earth's human shores,
Or gazing on the new soft-fallen mask
Of snow upon the mountains and the moors--
No--yet still stedfast, still unchangeable,
Pillow'd upon my fair love's ripening breast,
To feel for ever its soft fall and swell,
Awake for ever in a sweet unrest,
Still, still to hear her tender-taken breath,
And so live ever--or else swoon to death.