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What's your favorite movie? What makes it so great?
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Thu 2 Aug 2007
beautiful love story is not represented it has happy ending. Obtains the love forever is the best recollection.
Love needs honesty. Honesty needs courage. Are they able to face the love suffering. If they are unable to do, the result is leaving and then bury in the deepest of the hearts.
Fri 15 Jun 2007
The sadness, beauty, pathos, etc., of this little British movie are almost beyond words. Directed by David Lean, it stars Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard as 2 people married to other people who meet at a railway station and end up falling in love over a month-long period of meeting weekly. Do they consummate their love? Do they run off together into the sunset? I’ll leave that for you to find out. The beauty in this movie is the gut-wrenching heartache Laura and Alec endure as they realize they really love each other but that they also have other people whose lives would be ruined if they gave into their passion.
The other thing that makes this movie so beautiful is the use throughout of Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto #2. Mr. Lean used this brilliantly as we see the couple reach incredible heights and then sink into almost the almost unbearable, unendurable depths of despair.
My mother and I both considered thsi our favorite movie. She died in 1991 and I was unable to watch it until it came on last year ohn Turner Classic Movies. I “made” myself watch it and only then - after 15 years of “growing up,” did I come to realize just how very sad this movie really is. It is absolutely heartbreaking but wonderful. Why Celia Johnson didn’t get an Academy Award or its British equivalent is absolutely a mystery because she was so wonderful as Laura.
I recommend this movie most highly. But above all, I treasure this movie and if I were to compile my own list of AFI films, this would be #1.
