What a movie!

[jonjon_z]

That's some nice artwork ricc9.

[Wolfchild]

Presumably you also mean that you have watched the entire movie, from the beginning to the end, over 100 times? (I assume you mean this because along time ago we had a little argument about this matter). This seems strange to me for I can never watch a whole film anything like that many times.

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I guess it must all be very different for you. Still, what exactly draws you back to the film so many times? It can’t be that you expect to see anything new - you must by now remember everything by heart. There is no surprise - everything is now entirely predictable. It seems like it has to be the “physical” pleasure of watching - but why the whole thing? Take, say the conversation in the pub (Lacke and Co.). You know every word they are going to say. Isn’t it simply boring to watch that again and again?

Yes, I am talking about watching the film in its entirety. There are many more times when I have watched pieces of the film, but those times are for the purpose of checking something or research.

I suppose I can still watch the whole film for pleasure because it is still evocative for me. Why this should be so I really can't say. I guess it must be related to the reason this film affected me so much in the first place, and I've never really figured that out, either. I can describe it as somewhat of a visceral experience, so your conjecture about it being a "physical pleasure" may not be too far off the mark.

However, I do still find new things in it. It was only in the last couple of months that I noticed how, when Gösta comes into the restaurant, both Lacke and Virginia turn quickly turn their faces away and cover their noses with their hands. Also, I am writing an article about something else that I recently noticed, and I have ideas for one or two more after that. Perhaps you could take in everything that this film has to offer in one viewing, but I'm pretty sure that I didn't. I am content to enjoy watching the film again and again as I look for more things that I have missed.

[lombano]

Welcome, ricc9!

If I wouldn't want to meet a hungry Eli in a dark alley, I wouldn't want to meet the creature of your avatar at opposite ends of a long bridge!

If it came to that, I'd rather be nommed by Eli than by ricc9's avatar.

Oh, you might want to get the original soundtrack from the movie as well; great to have playing in the background while you're reading.

I can listen literally hundreds of times to the same piece of music. For example, my current car is Czech so naturally it always plays Czech music (in fact the sonatas for two oboes and a bassoon by Jan Dismas Zelenka). So I listen to this every day and I never get tired.

With the pieces of music I love the most, I can't do either one - I can't focus on anything else while listening, and I don't want to wear the magic out, so I only listen to it sparingly. Likewise for LTROI, I don't watch it often.

[jetboy]

Can I just leave Eli a twelve year old girl?

Thats the way I see Eli in the movie. No one can ever take the away my feelings about the movie unless I do so myself. Having said that I respect other opinions and am slowly starting to see other peoples points of view.

I also read the book but for me it was too late to change the way I see Eli. It was also great though, it has what the movie had and more.

Feel free to change my mind though.

[Wolfchild]

Can I just leave Eli a twelve year old girl?

Thats the way I see Eli in the movie. No one can ever take the away my feelings about the movie unless I do so myself. Having said that I respect other opinions and am slowly starting to see other peoples points of view.

I also read the book but for me it was too late to change the way I see Eli. It was also great though, it has what the movie had and more.

Feel free to change my mind though.

That's why I refused to read the novel for a long time. I was afraid that it would take my Oskar and Eli away from me. It was something that JAL himself said that finally convinced me that it was safe to read it. He said in an interview that when he thinks of Oskar and Eli, he in his mind he pictures Kåre and Lina. I knew then that I could read it and still keep my Oskar & Eli.

Don't let anyone take your Oskar & Eli away from you.

[N.R. Gasan]

Thanks N.R., if my avatar is too much i'll change it.

Don't you dare. LOL I also really like the Eli/Kayla artwork. Are you an artist of some sort? Graphic design, maybe?

[ricc9]

Retired photographer. I do play with some graphic design stuff at times.

[ricc9]

Thanks N.R., if my avatar is too much i'll change it.

Don't you dare. LOL I also really like the Eli/Kayla artwork. Are you an artist of some sort? Graphic design, maybe?

[SilentBob]

*LOL, seems N.R. Gasan got a fan. ;- ) That's a cool answer, ricc9.

[ZWD40]

That's a cool answer, ricc9.

Indeed!
A picture is worth a thousand words?