Two Quick Things
Jan. 31st, 2011 08:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
errant_janeThe first: I sort of unabashedly love the song "A Little Respect" by Erasure. I refuse to apologize for this.
The second: I watched The Lost Valentine last night and ended up bawling like a baby. Not because it was the Best Ever, but it pulled the right strings. It makes me wonder if younger generations will have the same sort of visceral response to WWII stories as those from my generation and up. I think I'm at the end of the stretch where those are our grandparents, so something like The Lost Valentine strikes a chord because you've heard similar stories from (and/or about) your grandparents/great aunts and uncles/etc.
Meh. I'm not being very articulate at the moment. Maybe just that WWII stories seem very familial and personal because we (of a certain age) can attach them to specific people. I wonder if those stories will continue to have such an impact because that generation was what it was, or if the fascination will start to fade.
Or maybe I'm just a big ridiculous sap and Hallmark makes me cry. That is also entirely possible.
The second: I watched The Lost Valentine last night and ended up bawling like a baby. Not because it was the Best Ever, but it pulled the right strings. It makes me wonder if younger generations will have the same sort of visceral response to WWII stories as those from my generation and up. I think I'm at the end of the stretch where those are our grandparents, so something like The Lost Valentine strikes a chord because you've heard similar stories from (and/or about) your grandparents/great aunts and uncles/etc.
Meh. I'm not being very articulate at the moment. Maybe just that WWII stories seem very familial and personal because we (of a certain age) can attach them to specific people. I wonder if those stories will continue to have such an impact because that generation was what it was, or if the fascination will start to fade.
Or maybe I'm just a big ridiculous sap and Hallmark makes me cry. That is also entirely possible.
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Date: 2011-02-01 04:50 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2011-02-01 05:03 am (UTC)strikes a chord this makes sense - nostalgia, or hitting any button, can make a movie/story/play more memorable for me because it fills an emotional need even if it's not a stellar work.
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Date: 2011-02-01 05:10 am (UTC)*nods* bulletproof nostalgia, maybe? But yeah, totally like that.
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Date: 2011-02-01 05:17 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2011-02-01 05:32 am (UTC)my ridiculous love for Erasure is ridiculous. :)
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Date: 2011-02-01 05:42 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-02-01 07:26 am (UTC)I try to discover a little something to make it sweeter....
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Date: 2011-02-03 08:43 pm (UTC)Oh baby refrain from breakin' my heart...
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Date: 2011-02-01 12:29 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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