TeaTime wrote:

I don't think I could call the film uplifting.  I'm honestly still not able to process it... I sort of can't figure out what emotion it is I'm feeling, I don't like it and yet I want more.  It's weird.  Of course even the general point of the film is a bit conflated with having to watch Benedict suffer and die... which I suppose I would find upsetting regardless.  

Interesting. And it sounds a bit like what I always feel when I watch the movie... it hurt's so much, especially the last 20 minutes, but at the same time I always feel like 'oh, this is so good, this feels so true, I wanna see it again right away'. And apart from the pain and the loss there also are those moments where I'm just laughing out loud or where I think 'yes, that's a good way to go, maybe the best way to go'. 

Couldn't it be the huge amount of work and the fact he is indeed almost 40? 

Anyway, beautiful treatment of the subject...
And I only hope real life doesn't reflect the art.

But he won't forever...

This isn't really the place for this discussion and so I'm sorry.
I hadn't honestly thought of it when I watched Third Star, but others mentioning it, it's brought it to my mind ...
Losing Benedict.

Last edited by besleybean (January 26, 2014 9:07 pm)

I just saw this. I knew the subject matter and because of it, it's taken me time to bring myself to watch. Mainly because my husband's brother, James, died of cancer far earlier than any person should have to die, and because my grandfather died six months ago from the bloody disease.

God did it make me cry. It made me think of my own life, and not to waste a minute of it. Benedict's portrayal of someone in the final stages was brilliantly/horribly accurate, and brought back a lot of memories that I thought I'd dealt with. I cried with him, I cried for him. And for his friends who, for all their faults and slightly off-kilter lives, loved him.

As a piece of cinema it was very good, it had a nice pace, was beautifully shot. But it wasn't about that, it was about the performances and the characters. And more than anything, the message. If you don't come away from it reviewing your own life and your outlook on it, then you've not watched it properly.

That's my take on it anyway. I won't be wasting my time in future. Or shooting just wide of my dreams.
 

Finally, finally got to watch Third Star. A week ago.
And it is still fresh in my mind today. At the end, I called up my best friend of 35 years and put her on the spot.
She still thinks I've gone completely bonkers.

An excellent movie, not usually the type I would choose from a list, but I am glad I finally took the time to view it. It asks a lot of very important questions about the heart, friendship, and loyalty. I will admit that I don't really cry at movies too much, but this one brought me very close to the edge. Those boys going out of their way to care for their friend like that--even when the going was extra tough? That's loyalty. Believe me, I've seen families where they don't even give half that much respect to ill members.
Touching-absolutely. Ultimately, he chose to face the inevitable in his own fashion: we can only hope that we would all be as brave.

A+++
 

I bought it in UK to have english subs... it was even cheaper in Germany (with both german and english on it), but the german one doesn't have english subs... So I thought the english would have... but no...
bit strange... I had this: Third Star (2010) Movie Script | SS  and read there all the time... propably missed much because of that but it was really hard to listen, because the voices are not loud enough...

Brilliant acting though. Benedict really makes you think that he has physically pain... like he was brilliant in Hawking too...

I realy enjoyed this movie. It didn't make me sad, quite to the contrary. I see it as a portrayal of a 'good death'. James is spending his last days out and about, doing what he wants to do, surrounded by friends, his symptoms relatively well controlled. He has as much control as he can under the circumstances. This is in a striking contrast to how most people die (we are a bit better at getting it right for people then we used to be though with growing emphasis on good palliative care).

 

Just a few posts ago zeratul posted a link to a script, if that helps a bit