“For the heart is an organ of fire.”

I’m working on my “list of movies that have inspired me” list. But for now, I thought I’d share my answer to a meme that’s being passed around on Livejournal.

So, in honor of my favorite movie:

I bought this movie for my dad around Christmas ‘97 and I don’t think he ever watched it. I ended up sticking it in the VCR and from that day on, the desert and these characters have never left me. It’s a movie you either fall in love with or you hate. I see the reasoning behind both camps. Gabriel Yared’s soundtrack for this film is my favorite of all time. It introduced me to the poet, Michael Ondaatje, another favorite. I love Ralph Fiennes as the iconoclast Count Almasy who wants to live in a world without borders. The cinematography, writing, music, cast….everything about this movie is seductive: at times romantic, at times intense. Basically, as pretentious as this all of this may sound…the movie has stood the test of time for me and I’m still under its spell. It doesn’t fit into my usual favorite categories of spies, robots, ass-kicking, or the post-apocalypse…but this movie might as well be made of magic powder. Where’d I put my hanky?

RIP Director Anthony Minghella.

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