"You can't be hungry and scared both at the same time... If you're scared, it scares the hunger out of ya." This line is one of my favourites from all the conversations I've witnessed on the big screen, it was said by Peter Warne (Clark Gable) - the sweetest piggy backer one could possibly find - in the film 'It Happend One Night' (1934). The wit, sharpness and quite often dry humour always give me the feeling I would be happier without Technicolor.
This is one of the films I've learned to love through my brother's adoration for B&W cinema, I grew up sharing my late at night hours in the living room with him and that is a period of my life I very much miss. 'It's a Wonderful Life', 'Casablanca', Maltese Falcon', 'City Lights','Some Like it Hot' and other titles evoke in me a beautiful sense of nostalgia that I treasure. They depict a period when the daily routine was different, or seemed to me to be different, a period where life was apparently less virtual and urgent.
My life feel's like Newton's irritating first Law of Motion... Inertia. Do I dream of a life that walks in a different pace just because I don't feel like doing much? Am I just a lethargic person that is trying to decorate her laziness with wallpapers of philosophy? Do I romanticize about the past just because it's easier to place yourself in a period you reinvented in your mind? So many questions to ask, so many revealing answers to ignore.
Films, books and music built up a fantasie world that often overshadows my reality. My mind is full of scenes and sounds and my hability to question is fruitfull, I just keep wondering until when I'll be able to keep Clark Gable, my sanity, and my mind in the same room.
x B
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