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How old were you when you first saw this film?

posted 16 years ago by Hyperviolet
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I was 13. Though I was quite a young 13 (child-like, whereas other girls in my school were more teenagery), I was immediately captured and mystified. I began to keep a diary and made it look '70s', decorating it with old pictures and cigarette cards, and filling it with all kinds of embarrassing 'why are we all here?' crap.

Anyway – the first viewing of this film marks a time where I became more interested in film, pop culture and general growing up (the theme of suicide was not my personal main focus), and now as an adult I'm wondering if anyone had a similar 'growing up' experience, with this or any other movie? I doubt it would have had the same impact on me if I’d first watched it at 22 instead. Sometimes it's as if with films, books and even songs, the age you are when you encounter them means just as much as the sentiment within the thing itself.

I hope this post is more coherant than I feel right now.

[–] maxtshea 10 years ago

I didn't see it when it came out. I saw it just now. It's a nicely shot period piece, but the story is dumb.

Styx and the Heart songs brought back memories of my seventies childhood. You know what else did? The Dutch elm disease.

I have early memories of two beautiful elm trees at the end of our street being cut down. My father told me the trees were called "Elms" and told me about the Dutch elm blight.

[–] meowingdoggos 8 years ago

15 then, 15 now

I just saw it for the first time and it just finished like 2 minutes ago

if you can't handle me saying eggsactly instead of exactly, we can't be friends

[–] JuniperCoconut 8 years ago

I saw it when I was 14. I'm 28 now and still absolutely love this movie. The music and the the colors. . .it's dreamlike.

[–] jimbrown333 8 years ago

I got the film on VHS the year after it came out (2000) I was 13 at the time but was going to be turning 14 later that year.

[–] [email protected] (690) 8 years ago

I saw it for the first time (with commercials, btw), just the other day. I'm 57 years old, somewhat close to the age of the kids in VS, I believe. It's a complicated movie, filled with a lot of subtle humor, and I'm unsure how serious to take it. On it's face it's deadly serious, but it's a bit of a satire as well, so it seems almost more of an expert turn at audience manipulation than a story to be taken seriously. But it's fascinating and well-worth discussing.