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I'm in 9th grade

posted 12 years ago by Ginormica
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Im watching the Madonna video in my parents formal front room while I wait for Todd to pick me up and take me out drinking and other stuff. The song and it's video are mesmerizing . The story chilling and Penn is at his best. It's spring of 1986..... Flash forward, it's 2013, I'm 41, married and have 3 kids. This film still takes me back to that same vulnerable time. I could easily have been Terri. I loved my man, regardless! I'm grown now, got a 15, 7 and 3 year old. I'm sensible, eat healthy, work out and volunteer for PTA but this dang film makes me long for the days!!!!! I don't need to die, but I know that passion, lovin your man and bein naughty, hangin out at the lake with his buddies, they were all f-ups, drinking canned beer. Just wantin to go off be together have babies..... Oh the 80's. Good times. Loved the lighting in this and the real ness but the music is my favorite. The movie is timeless in my heart. I'll play it at 15, 26,31, 41... Still feel it!

[–] SpacemanBob 12 years ago

I first saw this movie back when it came out on VHS. Being a teenager from a rural area near to the setting of this film, I was mesmerized and watched it repeatedly back then. I just watched this again for the first time in 20 years or more and didn't know what to expect; thought it to be dated perhaps. But it's just still a fantastic film and I agree it still evokes the same feelings. If anything I like it even more now.

[–] spinaned 12 years ago

>> The movie is timeless in my heart <<

Me Too! This is a great underrated classic. Foley and the DP did such a masterful job with the visuals/score and then the acting by the three leads, Wow.