Map Of The Human Heart
How do you know you’ve made a great work of ART? A great work of ART is something as real as reality itself, and sometimes even more real than real. --Viet Thanh Nguyen, THE SYMPATHIZER, a novel
Fun, random card from Alan today:
April 24, 1993 Michael - Just a few minutes ago, I felt just like the guy in the photo. Let’s do it again. I love that feeling! More than 2x a year. Alan
The following day I sent a postcard to Paloma. I couldn’t wait to use the new SPACE AGE .29 cent stamps that I had just bought.
4-25-93 Paloma,
Congratulations on your exciting and busy move to Cap de la Corniche. It sounds exciting to be all caught-up in a new work environment (and a new place to live). Someday, I hope to visit. I sure do miss you. Here are just a few lines to let you know I got your last letter. I saw the ACADEMY AWARDS, of course. There are a lot of new movies coming out, too. I just saw INDECENT PROPOSAL starring Robert Redford and Demi Moore. It was good. THIS BOY’S LIFE starring Robert DeNiro and Ellen Barki
n is good, too. I’ll be going on a weekend trip to New York from May 28th to May 31st. My mom, niece Ashley and myself will go to Albuquerque, NM and Santa Fe from Aug 20th to Aug 24th. More later, Love, Michael
Alan and I went to see an unusual love story film called MAP OF THE HUMAN HEART. I rea
lly liked it but sometimes the ending makes me want to add an epilogue. It was about a young Eskimo boy (played by Jason Scott Lee) and a metisse (French for half breed) girl, Anne Parillaud, set in Arctic Canada. The story begins pre-WWII with the main characters as children and the beginning of their love, continues through WWII with their love truly and fully blossoming, and ends sometime after the war with the Eskimo boy, now an old alcoholic man meeting a young woman. What sets this apart from most love stories is how it ends, rather how it doesn't end. It doesn't end with your typical "and they lived happily ever after" finale. One quote in the film made me laugh. It kind of reminded me of Paloma: “Women are a map. You’ve got to understand their longtitude, and how much latitude you can take.”
There are so many great lines in so many films it is not easy to remember them all. A great film has a lot of dialogue in my opinion. I love a film that ‘makes me think’ overtime. Of course, books are best. They offer words that cannot just be said from dialogue.
He said, “Call me by your name and I’ll call you by mine,” which I’d never done in my life before and which, as soon as I said my own name as though it were his, took me to a real I never shared with anyone in my life before, or since. --Andre Aciman, CALL ME BY YOUR NAME
Fun, random card from Alan today:
April 24, 1993 Michael - Just a few minutes ago, I felt just like the guy in the photo. Let’s do it again. I love that feeling! More than 2x a year. Alan
The following day I sent a postcard to Paloma. I couldn’t wait to use the new SPACE AGE .29 cent stamps that I had just bought.
4-25-93 Paloma,
Congratulations on your exciting and busy move to Cap de la Corniche. It sounds exciting to be all caught-up in a new work environment (and a new place to live). Someday, I hope to visit. I sure do miss you. Here are just a few lines to let you know I got your last letter. I saw the ACADEMY AWARDS, of course. There are a lot of new movies coming out, too. I just saw INDECENT PROPOSAL starring Robert Redford and Demi Moore. It was good. THIS BOY’S LIFE starring Robert DeNiro and Ellen Barki
n is good, too. I’ll be going on a weekend trip to New York from May 28th to May 31st. My mom, niece Ashley and myself will go to Albuquerque, NM and Santa Fe from Aug 20th to Aug 24th. More later, Love, Michael Alan and I went to see an unusual love story film called MAP OF THE HUMAN HEART. I rea
lly liked it but sometimes the ending makes me want to add an epilogue. It was about a young Eskimo boy (played by Jason Scott Lee) and a metisse (French for half breed) girl, Anne Parillaud, set in Arctic Canada. The story begins pre-WWII with the main characters as children and the beginning of their love, continues through WWII with their love truly and fully blossoming, and ends sometime after the war with the Eskimo boy, now an old alcoholic man meeting a young woman. What sets this apart from most love stories is how it ends, rather how it doesn't end. It doesn't end with your typical "and they lived happily ever after" finale. One quote in the film made me laugh. It kind of reminded me of Paloma: “Women are a map. You’ve got to understand their longtitude, and how much latitude you can take.” There are so many great lines in so many films it is not easy to remember them all. A great film has a lot of dialogue in my opinion. I love a film that ‘makes me think’ overtime. Of course, books are best. They offer words that cannot just be said from dialogue.
He said, “Call me by your name and I’ll call you by mine,” which I’d never done in my life before and which, as soon as I said my own name as though it were his, took me to a real I never shared with anyone in my life before, or since. --Andre Aciman, CALL ME BY YOUR NAME
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