{"id":7939,"date":"2008-04-07T14:08:24","date_gmt":"2008-04-07T18:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=7939"},"modified":"2022-07-02T08:38:00","modified_gmt":"2022-07-02T12:38:00","slug":"happy-place-35","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=7939","title":{"rendered":"Ewan McGregor in Moulin Rouge<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"

Maybe the happiest place of all for me, even though he (the character) has a sad end.<\/p>\n


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\nAnd lastly. This image, to me, is a work of art.<\/p>\n

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I’ve never really written about 2002, not specifically anyway, not what happened or who I became. I’ve approached it from the side, from time to time. And here’s a post directly about Moulin Rouge<\/i><\/a> – which comes closer to talking about the horror of 2002. I’ve read posts where people scoff those who say “That movie saved my life! Reading that book saved my life!” And I suppose if every other thing appears to have “saved your life”, then you might not be taken seriously. Or maybe those who scoff have never been so saved or changed by a movie or a book, and they would rather scorn you – than try to understand. Whatever the case may be. In 2002, Moulin Rouge<\/i> (and I hadn’t seen it in the movie theatre – for some reason, I missed it) saved my life. It was not pretty. And I had a roommate at the time, and whenever she brings up 2002 now, she gets kind of tentative, like she doesn’t know what to say. I don’t blame her. I started my blog in October of 2002, which was my true re-entry into the human race again. But that would never have happened without Moulin Rouge<\/i>. And when I look at that last photo in my post, I remember. I have tears in my eyes right now, remembering. I remember where I was back then, and what it was like for me inside my head, and then I remember staring at the television, watching Moulin Rouge<\/i>, and feeling, vaguely, like a bell from a distant mountaintop, like maybe I was going to be okay. Someday. Not now. But someday. That’s what watching that movie was like for me.<\/p>\n

\nTo me, it’s not a movie at all. I haven’t read one review of it, I have no opinions about it, I have nothing to say. I haven’t listened to any of the director’s commentary on the copy of it I have. It is sheer experience, and it contains health, mental health, to me. Truly phenomenal – I wonder if Baz Luhrman would ever know or understand that THAT is what his movie gave me.<\/p>\n

Who knows. Look at that last image. It looks like what love should feel like. Or – what love actually is<\/i>.<\/p>\n

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