Hearts in Atlantis
Oct. 2nd, 2009 02:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
joegoda"Sometimes when you're young, you have moments of such happiness, you think you're living in someplace magical, like Atlantis must have been. Then we grow up and our hearts break into two."
I watched this movie today, and it's been something I've been wanting to do for a few years now. It came out in 2001 and contains one of my favorite actors, Anthony Hopkins. He has never failed to enthrall me with his delivery, tone, and absolute dedication to the craft.
Mika Boorem performed in it as well, as a young girl, and her face was such the sweetness that it broke my heart to see her.
The story is from a book written by Stephen King. It's one of the stories in that book, and the story is titled "Low Men in Yellow Coats". The actual story that has the title of Hearts in Atlantis is the story that follows "Low Men" Doesn't really matter, except as a footnote in history.
Unlike some movies, where the mysterious stranger is just a device to move the plot along, and really - the movie could have been done without the oddities and strangeness, this move needs the mysterious stranger. Of course, King writes stories in such a way that without the oddity, without the strangeness, the characters cannot grow, they cannot develop.
So it was with this one. I felt such a strong kinship with the character of Ted Brautigan (who shows up in the final book of the Dark Tower Series), that I cannot let the impressions pass away from me, and the eternal separation of this character from the rest of the world has take residence in me. I suppose that we all, at one time or another, feel that separation. I suppose we all, at one time or another, have the acute awareness of how lonely we are, and how lonely those around us are.
"We're all just passing through, Kiddo," Brautigan says. And he's right. We are just spending time from the moment of birth to the moment of release. It is what we do in those moments between that define us.
It's been a helluva ride, so far. I'm wondering what will be next, just over that hill? Regardless, if it is a long, long trip or if it suddenly ends today, right now, as I sit here and wonder how you are all faring, I'll steal and paraphrase another quote from the movie.
"I wouldn't have missed a single minute of it, kids. Not for the whole world"
I watched this movie today, and it's been something I've been wanting to do for a few years now. It came out in 2001 and contains one of my favorite actors, Anthony Hopkins. He has never failed to enthrall me with his delivery, tone, and absolute dedication to the craft.
Mika Boorem performed in it as well, as a young girl, and her face was such the sweetness that it broke my heart to see her.
The story is from a book written by Stephen King. It's one of the stories in that book, and the story is titled "Low Men in Yellow Coats". The actual story that has the title of Hearts in Atlantis is the story that follows "Low Men" Doesn't really matter, except as a footnote in history.
Unlike some movies, where the mysterious stranger is just a device to move the plot along, and really - the movie could have been done without the oddities and strangeness, this move needs the mysterious stranger. Of course, King writes stories in such a way that without the oddity, without the strangeness, the characters cannot grow, they cannot develop.
So it was with this one. I felt such a strong kinship with the character of Ted Brautigan (who shows up in the final book of the Dark Tower Series), that I cannot let the impressions pass away from me, and the eternal separation of this character from the rest of the world has take residence in me. I suppose that we all, at one time or another, feel that separation. I suppose we all, at one time or another, have the acute awareness of how lonely we are, and how lonely those around us are.
"We're all just passing through, Kiddo," Brautigan says. And he's right. We are just spending time from the moment of birth to the moment of release. It is what we do in those moments between that define us.
It's been a helluva ride, so far. I'm wondering what will be next, just over that hill? Regardless, if it is a long, long trip or if it suddenly ends today, right now, as I sit here and wonder how you are all faring, I'll steal and paraphrase another quote from the movie.
"I wouldn't have missed a single minute of it, kids. Not for the whole world"
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Date: 2009-10-02 10:02 pm (UTC)Know that I am thinking of you.
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Date: 2009-10-02 10:40 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-10-02 10:46 pm (UTC)On the 9th, there is the Rock 'N BBQ on the Water on the Riverwalk.
On the 8th, I think some of us are going to go dig for crystals.
And you know, you are always invited, and you know, there is always a way for you to come join us... if you have the time and tide.
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Date: 2009-10-02 10:48 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-10-03 02:29 pm (UTC)"It will be the kiss against which all other kisses are measured, and found wanting."
The ensemble cast is amazing - The Green Mile revels in another such cast.
I found the book to be troublesome, though that's no fault of King's and I still enjoyed it. My brain has difficulty coping with multiple narratives in an audio book, the way I get most of my literature.
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Date: 2009-10-03 03:09 pm (UTC)I haven't read the book yet, but I think it's getting to be time to.
The particular quote that you referred to may be true, but I don't remember my first kiss. I can remember some fantastic kisses, but I'll be darned if I can call up that first one, or who it came from.
Good to hear from you, Bill.