tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30203557.post115796611813499920..comments2024-03-26T01:10:13.720+00:00Comments on Teach Me Tonight: And Death Shall Have No DominionE. M. Selingerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00426524354823232002noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30203557.post-1158176929960825602006-09-13T20:48:00.000+01:002006-09-13T20:48:00.000+01:00I really enjoyed Truly, Madly, Deeply too. It was ...I really enjoyed <I>Truly, Madly, Deeply</I> too. It was interesting how she was cutting herself off from life, and so he came back and showed her that, albeit not physically present, he was having a much more sociable life than she was. And it does very much share the theme I was discussing of the departed partner giving the living one permission to get on with life and loving.Laura Vivancohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00906661869372622821noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30203557.post-1158175649183042072006-09-13T20:27:00.000+01:002006-09-13T20:27:00.000+01:00I could think of no reading I had done that would ...I could think of no reading I had done that would be pertinent to this topic (except, of course, the Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon in which Claire must deal with the "death-not-yet-birth" of her husband Frank when she goes back in time the first time; the supposed death of Jamie after Culloden; the real death of then-estranged Frank; the loss of a baby daughter, then the loss of her grown daughter when she goes back in time again -- those books are all about the timelessness of love and how you can love many people in a lifetime), but as I was sitting in a talk about the public expressions of mourning, I suddenly remembered one of my all-time favorite movies deals with this subject: <I>Truly, Madly, Deeply</I><BR/><BR/>At the beginning of the film, Nina (Juliet Stevenson) has lost her husband Jamie (Alan Rickman)and her inability to deal with her grief and the wreck of a new house seems to draw him back into the world of the living. She is overjoyed at having him back again, even as a ghost, but slowly he begins to remind her of all the things he did that drove her crazy when he was alive. And he keeps bringing other ghosts home with him. Gradually, Nina begins to realize that she has to let Jamie go if she's ever going to join the world of the living again. When she meets a new man, she begins to see that she can't entomb herself away with Jamie because there are other people that love her too. She doesn't love Jamie any less, but life without him can still be bearable.<BR/><BR/>It is funny, sad, wonderful movie worthy of three or four tissues, and I love Juliet Stevenson. I always picture Claire from the Outlander series as looking exactly like her.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com