--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long <sharelong60@...> wrote: > > Even the trailer brought tears to my eyes. Thanks for sharing.
It's quite good. The acting is what makes it wonderful. Both Omar Sy (who plays the guy pushing the wheelchair) and Francois Cluzet (who is in it) are wonderful, and both deserve the many Best Actor nominations they got for this film. Especially Cluzet, who after all had to do 100% of his acting from the neck up. The screenplay, by Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano, both of whom also directed, is a masterpiece of subtle French humor. There are parts of it that are Laugh Out Loud funny, but possibly only if you've lived in France. And besides, now I'm deeply and everlastingly in love with one of the actresses in the film (Audrey Fleurot), so much so that I just downloaded and am about to watch a recent film of hers, "Delicacy," for which she got as many raves as her more well-known co-star, Audrey Tautou. I actually find myself imagining a threesome of me and the two Audreys, which is not as crude as it sounds, but instead an in joke you won't get until you watch the film. :-) > Again, from my own experience, unless one is extremely > psychologically developed, physical intimacy doth make > drama queens and kings of us all (-: My experience, fortunately, has been different. Being a drama queen, like any of the other afflictive emotions, is IMO a choice, not a necessity. That's my belief, although I will freely admit that it is also my predilection. To quote that uber-babe Jessica Rabbit, "I'm just drawn that way." What I've noticed over time in my "drive bys" of the larger spiritual community is that interestingly there seems to be an inverse relationship between drama queens in a group, and the emphasis that group places on self- less service. The more of the latter, the less of the former. Part of it is just being busy doing for others. In that environment, egos tend to get forgotten, at least among those who "catch the wave" of doing something nice for other people. Over time I've seen the value of selfless service as an actual practice (as opposed to just paying lip service to it or limiting opportunities to perform selfless service to the two seconds it requires to write a check). And I'd be willing to bet that it shows up in places other than in spiritual communities per se. Show me a soup kitchen run by non-believers, and a line of atheists ladling out food to hungry people, and I suspect most of them are not going to go all drama-queeny on the others. To indulge in that would kill the buzz of focusing on others, and trying to do a little something nice for them. But all of this is just empty philosophy. I am just not a big fan of drama queenery because life's too short, and too full of more pleasant ways to spend one's time.
