05 July 2009
Everything to me (Waking the Dead)
)Published on July 5th, 2009 @ 05:21:44 pm, using 21 words, 198 views
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Fielding: You’re never here anymore. You’re at the church all day long.
Sarah: And you’re at school or studying all day long.
Fielding: Are you in love with him?
Sarah: Who?
Fielding: Mileski.
Sarah: Fielding… Steven is a priest. You’re my lover, Fielding. He’s a part of what I do. You can’t be everything to me.
Fielding: I wanna be.
Sarah: (sighs) Oh dear… I love that you said that.
(Waking the dead)
Those last two lines kill me.
They kill me just as they uphold this very fragile yet stubborn idea I have in my head of how things should be, of how love should unfold. An idea I often find myself wondering about, second guessing if you will - whether or not it derives from a handicap of sorts. An inability to follow the way of the majority which becomes something transplanted and incongruous. Something that belongs in childhood or youth and finds itself in adult life… in me.
I’ve been led to believe I suffer from a tendency to idealize things. Not everything. Love, really - to idealize love. And I often find myself caught between that tendency and someone else’s point of view. Not really able to assign right and wrong or distinguish between what’s there to be had and what can merely be wished for.
I don’t believe in being everything to someone. But I do believe in wanting to.
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One of my favorite bloggers dissected this scene, the acting in it and the reasons behind it so beautifully in her blog The Sheila Variations that I wouldn’t dare write anything further on it. Do yourself a favor and check it out.
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