Philadelphia Stories

Frank 2022-04-22 07:01:04

2.10 The Philadelphia Story ★★★
Chased after Forrest Gump. This movie has been in the making for a long time. I don't really like the subject matter, but Forrest Gump's acting skills are really top-notch. (Looks at the first few minutes) The front is too fast to see the meaning. AIDS patients, vulnerable groups in society. Discrimination is felt everywhere. Even reading the book has a wonderful vision. Once lost, he was trampled from time to time. Ben is a lawyer, fired for AIDS. After looking for multiple lawyers, no one was willing to accept it, and finally found one. In that era, gay and homosexual were discriminated. AIDS and homosexuality were looked down upon. I read a sentence before, God just confuses two people who love each other with the wrong gender. I don't know what my opinion of them is. Maybe I was discriminated against at that time. I didn't know, so I didn't dare to make false statements. The first time I saw a movie, gays were the protagonists. At the end, the male protagonist dies, and the price of death wins justice. Is it too heavy?

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  • Joe Miller: What's wrong with your face?

    Andrew Beckett: [upon entering Joe's office] I have AIDS.

  • [Andrew transcendentally describes his favorite opera,slowly walking around his apartment, closing his eyes, looking up]

    Andrew Beckett: Do you like opera?

    Joe Miller: I'm not that familiar with opera.

    Andrew Beckett: This is my favorite aria. This is Maria Callas. This is "Andrea Chenier", Umberto Giordano. This is Madeleine. She's saying how during the French Revolution, a mob set fire to her house, and her mother died... saving her. "Look, the place that cradled me is burning." Can you hear the heartache in her voice? Can you feel it, Joe? In come the strings, and it changes everything. The music fills with a hope, and that'll change again. Listen... listen..."I bring sorrow to those who love me." Oh, that single cello! "It was during this sorrow that love came to me." A voice filled with harmony. It says, "Live still, I am life. Heaven is in your eyes. Is everything around you just the blood and mud? I am divine. I am oblivion. I am the god... that comes down from the heavens, and makes of the Earth a heaven. I am love!... I am love."