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[butterfly]

Moulin Rouge still makes me cry at the end.

Ewan fucking McGregor, man. Of course, Baz is partly to blame, since he doesn't have a problem with actors seriously crying (see: Romeo and Juliet for more ugly and real crying from a Baz film). And Nicole is perfect in this, truly. Gorgeous and tragic and, dude, her skin glows.

I've seen this film... I couldn't possibly count the number of times. And yet, it captures me each time. I laugh and weep with just as much fervor as the first time I saw it in theaters. It's such an intensely cathartic movie -- it gives you permission to feel on an epic scale.

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[ngaio]

It's beautiful isn't it?

Do you know, I only watched it because I asked someone if it had a happy ending and they said yes! OK, I'm glad I watched it, but still!

[butterfly.livejournal.com]

Well... if you stop just as the curtain falls, there's a happy ending. Of sorts. Though you'd still know that she's dying.

Hmm.

One of its endings is happy? But the other ones really, really aren't.