Thank you for your review. One thing I thought about while watching it, and that is that I thought you could see that Jonathan changed, but it's so subtle. You see it at the end with the smile to Alex' back, and when he goes immediately to the river after being 'illuminated.' I thought too that it's hard to see the change in him, but I think it's there, only expressed in the slightest of actions. Like, picking up the sand, staring at the river (wasn't that a gorgeous shot?) I thought the scene with Alex and Jonathan, where Jonathan says he had his shirt on backwards was telling. Jonathan seemed to be losing it there, letting go of the things he's hiding behind, his obsessions, and realizing these things just don't matter, given what Jonathan has just asked him. A break in his armour. And Sammy David Jr. Jr., shows us that Jonathon is feeling so much below what we see, by his curl at his front door and the wonderful bed scene. Brilliant.
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Date: Wednesday, August 31st, 2005 11:14 pm (UTC)Thank you for your review. One thing I thought about while watching it, and that is that I thought you could see that Jonathan changed, but it's so subtle. You see it at the end with the smile to Alex' back, and when he goes immediately to the river after being 'illuminated.' I thought too that it's hard to see the change in him, but I think it's there, only expressed in the slightest of actions. Like, picking up the sand, staring at the river (wasn't that a gorgeous shot?) I thought the scene with Alex and Jonathan, where Jonathan says he had his shirt on backwards was telling. Jonathan seemed to be losing it there, letting go of the things he's hiding behind, his obsessions, and realizing these things just don't matter, given what Jonathan has just asked him. A break in his armour. And Sammy David Jr. Jr., shows us that Jonathon is feeling so much below what we see, by his curl at his front door and the wonderful bed scene. Brilliant.