How long will we stay infected?

[Nightshift]

Forever

[gattoparde59]

As long as I remain a human being, I will remain infected. (Although that can be a near run thing sometimes. )

Thanks to snaps for some new titles I had not heard of. Ginger Snaps I have seen, an interesting take on the old werwolf tragedy.

mackousko wrote:
Maybe the right solution is not to unnecessary bother this nice place with my presence, and instead to chose more quiet and inconspicuous way of membership.

This would be sad. Yours comments are my favourite to read so far.

I agree. Don't go away mackousko.

[mackousko]

Sort of funny, now I'm 100% sure that my infection will last forever

Maybe the right solution is not to unnecessary bother this nice place with my presence, and instead to chose more quiet and inconspicuous way of membership.

This would be sad. Yours comments are my favourite to read so far.

Thanks.
.....But are you sure, that you don't mistaken me for somebody else?

[gareth1971]

I can attest that it does fade, but only into the subconscious.

Speaking for myself, obviously...

[intrige]

I don't see the logic of choosing to be a lurker? I mean, if he things he's a bother. When he's really not!

[Wolfchild]

I am a more-or-less regular poster (over 1600 posts in the last two and a half years) on a php forum site that celebrates the Swedish film 'Fucking Åmål' aka 'Show Me Love', the actors, and other films by the director Lukas Moodysson.

Ah ha! I have been wanting to see Fucking Åmål for a few years now, but I could never find it anywhere. Now that I know it's alternate English title is Show Me Love, I find that its available for streaming on NetFlix. I'll probably be watching it in next few weeks. Thanks for that.

As for staying Infected: I spend far too much time being an admin here and nowhere near enough time being an Infected here. I haven't watched the film in about 9 months. Even so, I get a little shiver of excitement if I just imagine in my mind the sound of Kåre saying, "Skrik som en gris," and then the opening bars of Johan's Arrival. Also, as much I like the soundtrack, I have a slight dislike for the opening bars of Johan's Let the Right One In because I associate it with the end of the film. The film ends at exactly right place, but I hate that it ends, and the beginning of the track Let the Right One In always reminds me that it ends.

Geologists can still find the sites of meteors that impacted the earth millions of years ago. Even though time, weather, and tectonics have re-arranged the planet continuously since then, the evidence of the impacts have not been entirely erased. When something hits hard enough, the mark is indelible. Life may fill in the crater, distraction and time may weather and erode the circular ridges, but the place will never be the same afterward. I can't speak for anyone else, but for this Infected, this story was a shot of ancient rock from the unknown depths of space. I won't be surprised if I'm Infected on my death bed.

Edit: There have been Infected who have disappeared. Could they have been cured? The names TheVoxHumanus, lelkidoki, and jellmoo come to mind...

[sauvin]

Edit: There have been Infected who have disappeared. Could they have been cured? The names TheVoxHumanus, lelkidoki, and jellmoo come to mind...

Ah, jellmoo, he didn't hang around long, but left quite an impression. I wonder where he'd gotten off to...?

[Bustedstuff15]

Edit: There have been Infected who have disappeared. Could they have been cured? The names TheVoxHumanus, lelkidoki, and jellmoo come to mind...

Ah, jellmoo, he didn't hang around long, but left quite an impression. I wonder where he'd gotten off to...?

Perhaps Eli and Oskar got to em?

[Nightrider]

Sometimes I wish I've never seen "LTROI"...Maybe if I just read the book ...Maybe if I never seen the film or if it never existed.. then my "infection" wouldn't be around at all. I don't know if anyone else had a similar reaction, but it's been a very long time since I've actually watched the "LTROI" from beginning to end. During recent HBO transmission I shot some stills off the TV screen and I was only able to do that with the sound off. I switched TV off after I got the shots I needed. Is it possible to have your heartstrings tugged too much? To the point of physical pain. The same with Soderquist's soundtrack. The music is such integral part of the film that I'm completely unable to fully enjoy it without being turned into a quivering pile of jello. This soundtrack is possibly the most successful fusion of sound and image. Entire sequences flash in front of my eyes when I hear even a smallest snippet of "Eli and Oskar" or "Then We Are Together". Slivers of loneliness in the ominous "The Arrival". Centuries old pain and suffering of "Eli's Theme"
Oddly enough, for me book does not hold the same importance in the whole "infection" phenomenon. Maybe it's because the novel and the film are such independent creations. Maybe it's because the movie is such a unique representation of the novel's message. Maybe it's because the movie is such a perfectly fleshed out version of the book and it's characters that(for me at least) what's on the screen completely surpasses what's printed in the book.
My infection comes and goes. Sometimes it's weak, almost vanishing completely...sometimes it comes back full force, turning my day upside down.
How long will it stay? Only time will tell. Apparently I'm powerless against it...Maybe I don't want my infection to go away? We'll see...
I'd hate to be an old man trying to explain "infection" to my grandkids...and failing miserably.

[DMt.]

I'd hate to be an old man, writing about my infection on a forum nearly every day...oh, hang on, I am