― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Wednesday, 4 December 2002 10:11 (twenty-two years ago)
― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Wednesday, 4 December 2002 10:12 (twenty-two years ago)
― Colin Meeder (Mert), Wednesday, 4 December 2002 10:26 (twenty-two years ago)
― Pete (Pete), Wednesday, 4 December 2002 10:47 (twenty-two years ago)
― alext (alext), Wednesday, 4 December 2002 11:02 (twenty-two years ago)
There was an episode of 'Six Feet Under' that featured a baby that died (cot death), at the same time that Federico's wife was expecting their child. Having to deal with the dead child meant that Federico's anxiousness about the birth of his kid was massively increased. And to make things worse there were complications surrounding the birth and the baby had to be resuscitated. It was several seconds (felt like a lifetime) before the baby started to breathe and let out a cry.
Now the birth of my son also had 'complications'. (Won't bore you with the details, but he's perfectly OK now.) And being a father, the death of the child earlier in the episode was obviously very moving. But it was nothing compared to the effect that the birth of Federico's child had on me. When I heard the sound of the baby crying the relief, and more pertinently, the memory of the relief that I felt after I found out my son was OK, had a massive physical effect on me. Great wracking sobs suddenly took over my body. I wept and wept for about 10 minutes afterwards. And the strength of this feeling took me completely by surprise.
I've cried listening to music before, and I've cried watching films, but no piece of art has ever had a stronger immediate impact on me. And, of course, that doesn't make it the greatest or most moving piece of art ever made, it's just about my personal response at that time.
― James Ball (James Ball), Wednesday, 4 December 2002 11:24 (twenty-two years ago)
pete, you are a hard, hard man.
― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 4 December 2002 11:31 (twenty-two years ago)
― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Wednesday, 4 December 2002 11:34 (twenty-two years ago)
― Pete (Pete), Wednesday, 4 December 2002 12:49 (twenty-two years ago)
But seriously folks, I do feel more attached to a movie/ piece of music if it makes me cry- I guess it makes me feel like I bonded with it - but I don't necessarily feel that means it is great art.
Are documentaries on depressing subjects great art?
― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 4 December 2002 17:39 (twenty-two years ago)
― donna (donna), Wednesday, 4 December 2002 17:48 (twenty-two years ago)
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 4 December 2002 19:06 (twenty-two years ago)
i would call giving birth art though. in a weird and Very Painful way!
― donna (donna), Wednesday, 4 December 2002 19:15 (twenty-two years ago)
― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Wednesday, 4 December 2002 20:38 (twenty-two years ago)
2. Even when this isn't the case, even when crying signifies a genuine response from you, it doesn't necessarily signify a particularly tense response. e.g. I cried through most of series 4 of Pokemon, and I do think it was genuinely moving, but it only added to my enjoyment of life in a small way. On the other hand, I didn't cry at the Crystal Onix episode in series 3, but this taught me a lot about the nature of the relationship between art and the artist - not in a didactic kind of way, but more intuitively, possibly most valuable for displaying that somewhere in the Pokemon marketing machine, there was someone who understood all this. I regard it as not only the superior artwork but also the more effective response.
― B.Rad (Brad), Wednesday, 4 December 2002 22:38 (twenty-two years ago)
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 4 December 2002 23:37 (twenty-two years ago)
― Poppy (poppy), Thursday, 5 December 2002 02:53 (twenty-two years ago)