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Eloy 2022-04-21 09:02:32

A gay film with a very different temperament, it incorporates Shakespeare's drama, the sense of alienation like the western desert, and the mystery and desolation of memories and when the picture freezes. The whole is relatively harmonious and unified, but there is still a sense of separation and distance. I watched the lines written by River, and it was also the most moving. The stage-style lines are unimpressive, but the contrasting design of the funeral is a plus. I feel that the director has too many ideas, and the way of burying is rather strange, creating a sense of distance but very comfortable perception, wandering, drama, class, identity, the line of river alone is enough to infect me.

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  • Jazmin 2021-12-22 08:01:19

    This is the doomed wandering in life, the real homelessness, no spiritual belonging. No one cares where he sleeps every night. The fainting made me cry and runny, heartache to death. On the cemetery, Sunflower was silent. That desolate road leads to eternal loneliness, mother's tenderness, and the origin of life. I also have a sunflower. I think of him saying, I want to kiss you. This road never ends.

  • Zelda 2021-12-22 08:01:19

    Many years later, when I recalled this movie, what I first remembered was the endless loneliness and wandering of the River standing on the invisible country road on the endless prairie of Idaho.

My Own Private Idaho quotes

  • Mike Waters: This chick's living in a new car ad.

  • Scott Favor: It's when you start doing things for free, that you start to grow wings. Isn't that right, Mike.

    Mike Waters: What?

    Scott Favor: Wings, Michael. You grow wings, and become a fairy.