Yet Another Skeptical Movie You Might Have Missed

Following on from Skeptical Movies? Three You Might Have Missed

“And he tells me he loves me… and then he’s not there anymore.”

“And then how do you feel?”

“Okay, fine. Well, I feel looked after, I suppose. I feel watched over. You see, he never says anything profound or earth-shattering – you know, he doesn’t say ‘God thinks this’… or the planet or world events or ‘there is no God’. Just ‘go to bed, brush your teeth’ or the way I brush my teeth, because I always brush them side to side and he’ll say ‘Down at the top! Come on, down at the top, up at the bottom!’ … or ‘lock the back door’…”

“How long ago did Jamie die? Nina? Jamie? When was it he died?”

Truly, Madly, Deeply – Directed by Anthony Mingella. With Alan Rickman, Juliet Stevenson and Bill Paterson.

This is one of the films that I can pretty much recite from heart and recently embarrassed the hell out of myself at Dragon*Con whilst sitting around in the lounge on the nineteenth floor by STARTING to recite by heart, in front of a group of people. Thankfully, they didn’t throw empty bottles at me. I think some of them were rather fond of it too. Or just too bloody polite.

There’s two reasons that immediately spring to mind (apart from it being a great film, of course) – firstly, it stars Alan Rickman and the woman that the director wrote it for, Juliet Stevenson. Secondly, it was part of the reason why I trained to become an English as a Second Language teacher, because I could relate to the frustration felt by the overseas characters who were being scammed and taken advantage of.

Oh, and the poem by Pablo Neruda. Okay, that’s three, whatever. Hmph. There’s more, but that gives an idea.

Truly, Madly, Deeply is a film which frankly investigates the death of a loved-one and what realistically (considering it is, after all, a ghost movie) could happen if they return… ‘and things have changed’.

What if they’ve got new interests? What if you have moved on with your life? What if they have suddenly developed a fetish for twenty-four hour movie marathons and start shifting about your furnishings around to accommodate this?? I bet you thought being a ‘World of Warcraft Widow’ would be bad enough.

That and the fact that when I take a Russian novel (it must always be a Russian novel) and throw it into the air, it turns into a pigeon. It’s also the inspiration behind the Australian song ‘Truly, Madly, Deeply’, by Australian band Savage Garden.

Things being as they are, I found this film an enjoyable distraction during a difficult time. So, add more to the list if you like.

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