Sinister: sad stuff

[nickie]

on the subject of sad stuff.
i think the saddest thing i ever saw was a section of the John Lennon
documentary 'Imagine.'
John hears that there's some chap's been camping out on his lawn for a
couple of days (he's living in a mansion/stately home type rich person's
abode so he hasn't noticed the guy on the grounds or anything). so John
gets
someone to call the boy up to the house. The next thing you see is the boy
standing outside the house with John talking to him...giving out to him
really. John is trying to explain that there's nothing godly or even
interesting about himself...he's just a man...those songs he wrote are just
words, they weren't written for the boy - they were
written only with John, or maybe even Yoko in mind.
The little camper just looks slightly stunned, and very bedraggled from
sleeping rough in his idol's garden...he's also trying not to cry

next scene, john and yoko and the boy are sitting around a table eating
lunch...the boy is obviously starving cos he's eating really ravenously
with his hands and the other two are just looking at him...John keeps
repeating what he's said...he's being pretty harsh but i guess it's a real
pain for him to have people following him all the time(see Mark Chapman for
details)...the sad thing is the look on the boy's face.
it's a mixture of feeling stunned and euphoric to be inside John Lennon's
house,
actually in the company of the person who he's loved for years and years
and who's company he probably always imagined being in, and then sadness
because he's realising that the dream he had was exactly that and his whole
world is collapsing...he's still fighting back the tears...makes me cry
every time...

but then again i have a very bad record for crying at films...see "The Land
Before Time" for details...bear in mind that my mum used to turn on
"Lassie" when visitors came round so that they could laugh at me
crying...that show killed me every time...it got to the point where i
started crying at the sound of the opening notes cos i just
kept remembering all the times when Lassie nearly died...or saved that poor
deaf child from a burning treehouse etc....
of course now i've grown into a hardened cynical old hag and these things
don't effect me at all anymore...no really...sob.


nickie
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