Just watch Third Star for the first time.

Utterly gutted.

Going to have a lie down.

My husband was sleeping while I watched.  Had to hold back sobs for the last 30 minutes.

My parents watched this last night and loved it!

Well, I watched the movie a couple days ago, for the first time. Don't get me wrong, it was beautiful, but just an incredible bad timing for me. I think I'll appreciate it much when I watch it a second time. Later.

My father had leukemia in 1997/1998, my grand-father who was like a second dad to me as I had been seeing him practically everyday since my birth died of general cancer in 1998 and I"m the one who found him dead. My mother had a breast cancer in 2005 and had an ablation and we learnt recently that she had a recurrence after all these years, she starts a new chemio next week. Add to that that tomorrow, it will be exactly a year since my husband committed his tenth and last suicide attempt of the year (that also was the last time I talked to him then) before spending 3 weeks in intensive care and that I finally had to agree to stop the machines and hold his hand until his heart stopped. 

I'm not really the crying type but let's say that movie really had me in tears.

Like some people here, my dvd is an English import and doesn't even have hard to hear subtitles so I think I missed quite a lot (I had found that script someone mentioned in that post, but from what I understood it was a draft of the script so it wasn't exactly what was in the movie and it was so annoying to pause and get back to the script whenever I didn't get a sentence that I gave up the script quite quickly)

Otherwise, Benedict is incredible in this (and I'm not only talking about his looks though it's true he's extremely attractive in this), and so are all the other actors (his friends, I mean), they all were endearing in their own way, and there was a great alchemy between them all.

On an purely esthetical point, that movie's one of the most beautiful I've seen. It's wonderfully filmed. The landscapes, the portrayals of the characters... it's utterly beautiful and full of poetry.

The story was very simple yet very touching.

The actors and the way the movie was filmed made me feel like I was part of the journey, that I was travelling with them, sharing their life, their laughs or their "fights"...

And the end... well............................................

And yes, I still think there is a tragedy. That's a tragedy when someone that young dies, and it's a tragedy for those who stay.

My husband thought his life was a tragedy, and did everything he could to end it. I guess it was a relief for him to go away, but it's awful for me, and it's unfair to our son who will grow up without his dad...

But I understand what James means. He wants to comfort those who stay, to show them a positive way of remembering him. He knew he was comdemned and it's only fair he wanted to leave the way he wanted to: in his favourite place, with his friends around him, in the nature... and not on a hospital bed after having suffered like hell for too long...

A very beautiful movie that I'll definitely watch again. Just not now...



 

Ah, thank you Susi

Yeah, I'll definitely watch it again. I may make a video out of it as well, i'll see... It's just that I feel low these days. Should have watched Life of Brian for the 35465871th time instead, lol. No, just kidding, I'm glad I've watched it, but it made me feel even more depressed, that's all. It reminds me many painful memories. I felt for Ben, but I also felt for his friends for I've been there before.

All the vital organs  of my husband had been damaged (lungs, kidneys, liver, intestines and possibly his brain, we don't know to which extent, but at least he understood what we were saying and remembered what had happened before hospital. Only his heart was quite ok), and there was this last chance surgery when his colon was pierced. It was a very tough surgery with high chances for him to die while it was taking place. He didn't but lost all his blood and the surgery had to be stopped. We still had 48h ahead of us for a chance to finish the surgery, but he was too weak and even the transport would have been enough to kill him. They explained that even if he was in an artificial coma, with morphine and all, if I waited for him to die "naturally" in the next few days (or less as he had already made 2 heart attacks that day), he still would have suffered a lot "inside". So it was that or stop everything and let him go in peace and in a less painful way. It's been a terrible decision to make...You don't want to let him go and yet you know that it's just a question of time and that he'll end up dying anyway, and you have to think what's best for him, and not for yourself...

So I cried so much with that scene with James friends in the water, and Miles finally agreeing to let his friend go, and actually help him to go... That's probably one of the best proof of love you can give someone, but it's so hard... and then you spend the rest of your life asking yourself whether you've made the right choice or not, thinking "and if he could finally have been saved?", feeling guilty, and having the feeling you have really killed the person.........

Knowing all that, in that scene, I cried for James because life was so unfair with him and it must be terrible, but I also cried for Miles...

Still a very beautiful movie... Even if Ben wasn't in it and that the story would suck, I'd still watch it just for the beauty of the images!

Last edited by Punch me in the face (July 29, 2013 11:05 am)

For whoever would like to have this movie in a dubbed German version as well: I've just seen that it will be released in Germany in September. I've just preordered it, because my boyfriend needs a German version, his English isn't too good. (Star Trek Into Darkness and this movie in the same month, sounds like Christmas!)

You're very welcome, Susi!
And it's obviously thanks to Sherlock, because on the cover of the DVD it apparently says "With Sherlock-Star Benedict Cumberbatch".
So hopefully he will have his usual German voice...
 

Oh. Deep breath. This is truly one of the most beautiful videos I have ever seen. I know the song, The Smiths are one of my all-time favourite bands, and it sounds as if it was made for the film. Thank you very much for this. 
 

Last edited by SusiGo (August 5, 2013 6:46 am)

Aww, thanks Susi & mattlocked! It means a lot to me, because I worked really hard on it, I know maybe no one but me may notice those details, or the symbolism (i.e "there is another world" and you see migratory birds flying to "another world" etc). I chose each extract very very carefully, so I'm so glad you like it

And The Smiths also are my favourite band along with the Beatles, the Kinks, and Ocean colour scene. This song usually reminds me of my husband for obvious reasons and I can hardly listen to it without being overwhelmed with emotions, but when I saw Third Star lately, I thought that song was perfect for the movie...

Really beautifully done. I couldn't take my eyes away for just a second, it was sort of hypnotizing.

Btw, I was a fan of Morrissey first and only later discovered The Smiths. And of course now I'm a fan of both and always will be.