Distortions at the Screen Actors Guild Awards
Daniel-Day Lewis (DDL), most recently of the excellent No Country for Old Men, made the following comment about Heath Ledger at the Screen Actors Guild Awards the other evening:
"That scene in the trailer at the end of the film is as moving as anything I think I've ever seen."
Now I found that scene touching, raw and, as DDL put it, "moving." But to rank it up there in significance with anything he has ever come across. I hope he is only making reference to film. Actors, unsurprisingly, occupy different landscapes than the rest of us normal people. However, to think that anything on film rivals something from what occurs in one's own world is just distorted. Don't know much about DDL, and do not really care to know, but give me a break. Go witness a child say something truly unbounded by all of the assumptions and collected crap that adults peddle around; witness some old couple that has been married for say half a century walking hand in hand along some sidewalk; or witness an actual gay couple exchange vows unencumbered by inane laws throughout this country that often prevent them from doing so. In short, get after some real life experiences; there one can justifiably locate truly moving experiences.

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FYI, it was Daniel Day-Lewis, not Bardem, who made that comment.
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