after 5 years...

Rating: 10/10 (28 January 2002)

First time I watched this movie, I guess it was 1997, and I watched it 7-8 times more afterwards, I read the book... I highlighted many paragraphes in the book, I listened to the soundtrack thousands of times. Being a woman and a movie fan, I watch many "romantic" movies both new and oldies. This one was and still is my "favourite". So many things to remember from this movie only if you still have feelings and only if you can see what is beyond words...
"Half my days I can not bear not to touch you. The rest of the time I feel it doesn't matter if I ever see you again. It isn't the morality, It is how much you can bear."
"I just want you to know. I don't miss you yet." His face awful to her, trying to smile. Her head sweeps away from him and hits the side of the gatepost. He see it hurt her, notices the wince. But they have separated already into themselves now, the walls up at her insistence. Her jerk, her pain, is accidental, is intentional. Her hand is near her temple. "You will." she says.
How does this happen? To fall in love and be dissambled. I was in her arms.I had pushed the sleeve of her shirt up to the shoulder so I could see her vaccination scar. I love this, I said. This plae aureole on her arm. I see the instrument scratch and then punch the serum within her and then release itself, free of her skin, years ago, when she was nine years old, in a school gymnasium. ....
"Seas move away, why not lovers? The harbours of Ephesus, the rivers of Heraclitus dissappear and are replaced by estuaries of silt. The wife of Candaules becomes the wife of Gyges. Libraries burn. What had our relationship been? A betrayal of those around us or the desire for another life?" .....
This movie plays a lot of games with words, nationalities, languages and maps. Remember the last words of Catherine Clifton "All I desired was to walk upon such a world with no maps"...
Everything is different than it seems, it even plays games with words in the sense of adjectives only if you can get it. A car is still a car even if it is the fastest, or red, or large, or old.....