Comments on: The Visitor http://addisonrd.com/WordPress/2009/11/the-visitor/ your source for illegal theology downloads Thu, 22 Jul 2010 19:46:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: sharolyn http://addisonrd.com/WordPress/2009/11/the-visitor/comment-page-1/#comment-207254 sharolyn Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:07:43 +0000 http://addisonrd.com/WordPress/?p=3851#comment-207254 Thought today of "joy first, theory second". A character in my book is reading a book for the first time in years, and only because his life depends on it. He finds it not as bad as he feared. Anyhow, the quote is: "You learn more if you're laughing at the same time." Thought today of “joy first, theory second”. A character in my book is reading a book for the first time in years, and only because his life depends on it. He finds it not as bad as he feared. Anyhow, the quote is: “You learn more if you’re laughing at the same time.”

]]> By: sharolyn http://addisonrd.com/WordPress/2009/11/the-visitor/comment-page-1/#comment-194417 sharolyn Sat, 14 Nov 2009 22:23:00 +0000 http://addisonrd.com/WordPress/?p=3851#comment-194417 I'm surprised that someone put just those two minutes on YouTube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJ_Aw2Icxzk I’m surprised that someone put just those two minutes on YouTube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJ_Aw2Icxzk

]]> By: Sharolyn http://addisonrd.com/WordPress/2009/11/the-visitor/comment-page-1/#comment-194327 Sharolyn Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:25:47 +0000 http://addisonrd.com/WordPress/?p=3851#comment-194327 The last scene of the movie is one of my favorite movie scenes. Ever. SPOILER ALERT... Although we never meet his wife, or even know if it was a good marriage, we know he has been through four piano teachers. It as though he is lost and looking for her, or even himself. What he doesn't find in the piano he finds in the djembe, and the family he meets along the way. They leave (symbolically) fresh flowers in the apartment he never uses. He (symbolically) gets new glasses / a new view and perspective on life. And in the end, sheds the big heavy piano and plays a drum in the subway, not for anyone in particular. I love so many things about this movie. The last scene of the movie is one of my favorite movie scenes. Ever.

SPOILER ALERT…

Although we never meet his wife, or even know if it was a good marriage, we know he has been through four piano teachers. It as though he is lost and looking for her, or even himself.

What he doesn’t find in the piano he finds in the djembe, and the family he meets along the way. They leave (symbolically) fresh flowers in the apartment he never uses. He (symbolically) gets new glasses / a new view and perspective on life. And in the end, sheds the big heavy piano and plays a drum in the subway, not for anyone in particular.

I love so many things about this movie.

]]> By: chad http://addisonrd.com/WordPress/2009/11/the-visitor/comment-page-1/#comment-194326 chad Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:33:32 +0000 http://addisonrd.com/WordPress/?p=3851#comment-194326 Shar... I think his ordeal forces him back into life. He feels all this pent up and compartmentalized pain for the first time in... years? decades? All of a sudden, the music has a crest of emotion to ride. Shar… I think his ordeal forces him back into life. He feels all this pent up and compartmentalized pain for the first time in… years? decades?

All of a sudden, the music has a crest of emotion to ride.

]]> By: sharolyn http://addisonrd.com/WordPress/2009/11/the-visitor/comment-page-1/#comment-194297 sharolyn Fri, 13 Nov 2009 03:27:59 +0000 http://addisonrd.com/WordPress/?p=3851#comment-194297 I had considered many aspects of the movie, but hadn't considered that one. Good point. Someone I know said that it is about the power of music. But even at the beginning of the movie the professor is playing the piano, so he already had music. This points to the transformation of his character from the beginning to end of the film, and asks: Why is music more meaningful to him at the end of the story? I had considered many aspects of the movie, but hadn’t considered that one. Good point.

Someone I know said that it is about the power of music. But even at the beginning of the movie the professor is playing the piano, so he already had music. This points to the transformation of his character from the beginning to end of the film, and asks: Why is music more meaningful to him at the end of the story?

]]> By: michael http://addisonrd.com/WordPress/2009/11/the-visitor/comment-page-1/#comment-194295 michael Fri, 13 Nov 2009 02:20:33 +0000 http://addisonrd.com/WordPress/?p=3851#comment-194295 Saw it. Liked it. I watched it back to back with <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0858479/" rel="nofollow">Smart People</a>, both of which talk about how soul-crushing and meaningless academia can be. Saw it. Liked it.

I watched it back to back with Smart People, both of which talk about how soul-crushing and meaningless academia can be.

]]> By: Doug http://addisonrd.com/WordPress/2009/11/the-visitor/comment-page-1/#comment-194293 Doug Fri, 13 Nov 2009 02:08:36 +0000 http://addisonrd.com/WordPress/?p=3851#comment-194293 Saw it. Liked it. The primary message to me was how illegal immigration policy can cause such pain for people. Saw it. Liked it. The primary message to me was how illegal immigration policy can cause such pain for people.

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