Take Your Breath Away

Rating: Null/10 (14 March 1999)

Sorry, just got back from seeing this piece, and it took my breath away. There is so much here, and I doubt offhand if I have seen a more magnificent example of cinematic art in my life. The word "magnificent" comes to mind time and again, found myself whispering it under my breath throughout.
The first hour has no lapses, it is ecstatic. Only the pavement under your carriage changes. As the revelations come one after another you are carried into the pathos - and deeper meaning - of the piece.
For anyone who has loved with such a passion - fleeting moments no doubt for all - there is a lesson to be learned. Namely that such things do exist, and it is only through one another that we can attain such heights, such metaphysical experiences, and it is thanks to one another that we have such a memory with us forever. For it is truly better to have loved - with such a frenzied passion - and lost than to have never loved at all. As for me - I am happier. It took me only several years to realize how fortunate I am, and not the fortune's fool at all that Will at first fears he will become.