Pain and Glory
a film i so dearly love the first i watched it, three years later and still an experience as magical and maybe more, as i felt before. pain and glory is a melodrama that is so intimately real and wise and slow with a story that really felt like it is happening in real time. i do not think there is anything like it for me, it truly hit the right points of pain: family, love, sexuality, class, age, burden of physical mental and spiritual pain, and filmmaking. this pushed me to pursue film right before college, and so i do, and this viewing just reminded me the beauty of life while doing what i love. dolor y gloria so far is the only thing that made me contemplate and feel hopeful of an age where most of life has already happened which to this day, i am still not even able to comprehend. 930
it is making me realise life really has just begun and that regardless of this story tackling an earlier generation, it is a film that spoke to me the most. i will just continue to be honest with what im feel right now and could not even think about criticising a masterpiece like this. i am so in love with this story and treatment and all the genuity that is weaved into it. i managed to held back tears but i felt my soul let go for this experience. i am not sure of everything i just wrote but god i just love this film. 583