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To: redfish who wrote (535904)	2/5/2004 12:47:45 PM
From: Johannes Pilch	Respond to of 769670

Hehe. Or Uncle "Rodney". A few nights ago I saw one of the most touching movies I have ever seen. It is called "Far From Heaven." Made me cry like a friggin' baby. In the film a husband abandons his wife because he is a Sodomite. The wife finds herself isolated and unable to find comfort anywhere. She breaks down and runs outside to cry behind a tree when she is seen by her gardener. The guy asks if he can help and to make the thing short, she goes for the guy. Heck, I went for the dang guy because he was just so dang sweet. Anyway, its the 50s and this guy is black. So you know the woman is just caught between a rock and a hard place. The director did it right and these two folks, who you can just feel ought to have one another are forever kept away. I was like ripped up. One thing I don't think the director intended, but that he did right was he showed the woman's Sodomite husband being driven purely by sexual lust, whereas the woman and the gardener were being driven together by human identity. Both the woman and the black guy had, in a sense, lost a spouse (his wife had died), both were trapped by an oppressive society that forced roles based purely on surface appearances. As a result of their conditions, both had the empathy it takes to make for a real and abiding friendship. The Sodomite just wanted to have non-human sex. Everything they do is defined by this physical inhumanity. I think guys like Sullivan know this and will do everything they can to put a human face on what is not human. That is why he is willing to be an Uncle Bruce. Hey, I should say I felt for the Sodomite in this movie. Don't get me wrong. Dennis Quaid is really an amazing actor and he gave this guy a lot of storm and torment. But the fact is, rather than sacrifice himself for the benefit of his wife, he destroyed the woman (an intensely lovely woman played by Julianne Moore) and his children because of his own selfish lusts. There is just no excuse for it. It goes exactly against the meaning of marriage - a meaning that is now lost to us.