Funeral, also as a Good Start!

Dessie 2022-03-20 09:01:22

The look Andrew had as he walked out of Miller's law firm, the look on his face as he faced the fearful questioning in the library. . . Oh! It is worthy of being Oscar's acting textbook!
And the part where Tom explained the music with the hanging bottle. . . It is even more captivating and fascinating. And Denzel's handling of the gradual change of concepts before and after is also delicate and not superficial, convincing and gratifying.
The white things at the end are red-handed, especially the originality of this film. Just as the deep joke A thousand lawyers chained together at the bottom of the ocean is called a good start, Funeral is also a good birth-giving.
As far as the same-sex movies I've seen so far, Philadelphia and Farewell My Concubine are indistinguishable from each other, and they are far ahead with their high concept of digging out the strongest voices of characters based on the background of the times. Ground-breaking!
In the two works, the 2 couples have no intimate contact, but from the pursuit, persistence and perseverance of the male protagonist, love is strong.
Philadelphia premiered in 1993, and now 20 years have passed, and the social issues the film reflects seem unchanged. But the spiritual totem conveyed by the film—won't be ashamed of love, even facing AIDS, has long been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.
The last but not least, the music in this movie is really divine!

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Extended Reading

Philadelphia quotes

  • 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."