you guys, i finally got to see cmbyn on the big screen yesterday and it was so so good!!! ❤

convinced hubby to see it in the original version with subtitles (which was kind of funny everytime they translated the french/italian stuff into english too, so the screen would be full of subtitles ;P). the audience (mostly couples, old and young, gay and hetero, a lovely mix of people) was behaving well and stayed to the very end (told hubby i was going to throw rocks at anyone who dared to leave before elio was done crying ;).) i was excited for their reaction to the peach scene (as expected, they went from laughter to complete silence in a heartbeat when elio broke down) and mr. perlman’s speech (also dead silence with choked sobbing thrown in every now and then (mostly from me). hubby liked the film a lot,too, which i wasn’t sure he would as he’s usually into political thrillers and such but he said he esp. loved the slow pace of cmbyn and the scenery. in short: i had a good night. 😀

„you’re in totally different stages of life, you can’t relate“ wow i didn’t know that if you’re a few years older or younger than someone, suddenly you two are aliens from different planets. it’s not like you may have in common a religion, a sports team…

yeah it’s just so stupid. it’s like saying he’s a man and you’re a woman, so you can’t relate. you’re black and they’re asian so you can’t relate. you’re rich and he’s poor so you can’t relate. like wtf? people fall in love regardless of age, race … but those haters never speak about love in their posts, it’s always about fucking. (”why would a 24-year-old want to fuck a 17-year-old?”) i think it says a lot about the hater as a person and how they see teenagers (why would anyone fall in love or desire a teenager?) and  men in general (”predators looking for someone to fuck”). it’s just scary but thank god i don’t know anyone in rl with this kind of attitude. young people here are usually not that narrow-minded. then again, i don’t live in america. 😉 

Saudade

(…) is a deep emotional state of nostalgic or profound melancholic longing for an absent something or someone that one loves. … One English translation of the word is missingness, although it might not convey the feeling of deep emotion attached to the word “saudade”.  …

Saudade was once described as “the love that remains” after someone is gone. Saudade is the recollection of feelings, experiences, places, or events that once brought excitement, pleasure, well-being, which now triggers the senses and makes one live again. It can be described as an emptiness, like someone (…) or something (…) that should be there in a particular moment is missing, and the individual feels this absence. It brings sad and happy feelings altogether, sadness for missing and happiness for having experienced the feeling.