I started having a lump in my throat with the first funeral scene. Shed a couple of tears when Ned and Felix had their first real date (intense but not over the top imo, tragically beautiful).The floodgates were open from the moment Albert freaked out on the plane, the trash bag, how horrible omg... I have (still little) kids myself, it is unbearably painful to imagine what family / any loved ones must feel...
The other scenes mentioned in this thread, I cried through all of them. Dying Felix' eyes haunted me at night tbh...
Actually I just started crying all over just reading your posts. I think the movie is a masterpiece. The desperation, humiliations, helplessness, how lost they must have felt is just heart wrenching and it is almost physically touchable. And yet hope, true unconditional love as the strongest antidote... RM did a fine job (the subtlety of his direction, genius!) and so did his amazing cast. The dog is an example- nobody cared and they were too helpless, too overwhelmed to follow up on this. It's all in that scene.
The songs... Omg... The only living boy in New York has been on my Spotify all time fav list since Garden State and it was a perfect match here...
I think things have gotten better for LGBT at least in Western Europe where I live and I guess (hope) in wide parts of the US as well - at least outside the Bible Belt, right? I am aware that homophobia is still widespread. It also is here and if we drive a few hours east - darkest medieval times there... It is just so wrong how people are treated just because of who they love. Or just for being different (whatever that means anyway)... Here it still is a big thing when a prominent soccer player is the first professional soccer player to come out - why do people care? It even is a thing when my five year old decides he wants nail polish... But there is progress, right? Keep fighting!!
Quinn: Cause of Death? Masuka: ...Gravity
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