Go Now!!


Solid movie with just pure character interplay to entertain, lost art.

Reading a lot of the reaction to this movie, and no one has mentioned that the movie turns to black and the song Go Now is cued up. This happens immediately after she drops his hand.

I think it is possible that the playing of that song (remember she asks for Moody Blues at the party).. is being played at the party and she either walks out of the party or is symbolic of the direction of her last phase of her life, in that she won't be that rock that holds her husband in place, with the revelations of the past week.

A lot of films/shows, use that fade to black with the music playing as a contemplation of the ending and Go Now is a song that is pretty self evident... You better go Now..... It's time we say .... Goodbye...

I think she may end up leaving him in the end

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Totally agree with you. She dropped his hand like a hot potatoe. Yes, she knew she had to go. The irony is that they were celebrating 45 years of marriage when, in fact, Kate felt it was a farce. She didn't really stand a chance right from the get go.

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You are correct, but the real powerhouse part of the scene is Smoke Gets In Your Eyes. It had been "their" song for 45 years and she was just now hearing the lyrics.

The song is about a man who is blinded by the smoke from the fire that has gone OUT. He has lost his true love. Rampling is finally realizing why this song was so important to her husband and that it never meant for him, what it did for her

Then Go Now comes on to hammer it home.

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Amazing how some songs sound romantic and then you dissect the lyrics and it has nothing to do with "the moment". So many people thought Every Breathe You Take by the Police was a love song, not a stalker song

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, Unchained Melody.. songs like that have different meanings. That last dance scene was just super powerful, and her reaction was priceless. She had altered her perception of the 45 years in a 7 day time period. It had to really hurt to realize all this time you thought you had your soulmate of equal yolk and in reality you were the consolation prize that inherited the decrepit version of a man.

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As I get further removed from watching it, I realized little things I had probably missed or not given too much importance to. I kept thinking about that final scene and the lead up. The scene where he gives her the necklace and she apologizes for not getting him anything. She says something about how she'd planned on getting him a watch and having it engraved, but didn't know what to write. Little things like that tell us that it's all become unravelled. Even if one didn't like the pacing, the buildup or any of the tiny distractions from the main story, it's hard to deny the power of the final 5-10 minutes.

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Nice catch, Jon. I've heard that song so many times - as we all have - I just didn't think about, or even really hear, the lyrics.

Geoff never got over Katya, and it's affected almost every part of their lives. But I think it would be hard to "get over" someone you would have married, but who died in an accident. Especially if she were carrying your child. Kate learned during that week that she wasn't to Geoff what he was to her. Perhaps that's true of many of our relationships, to some degree.

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This has become one of my favorite movies of all time – because I love the slow pace, the relaxed feeling, and the look of the English countryside, as well as its stars – especially Charlotte!

I'm somewhat ashamed to admit that I don't get the heavy hearted feeling that most people are describing when explaining how devastating the subject matter of this film actually is. To me, this is a good Sunday afternoon movie. A good rainy day movie, to snuggle up with a cup of tea in bed and watch in order to relax to your hearts content. This movie does not break my heart. Maybe it should, but it doesn't. In fact, I just look at it as what will be will be. Despite what happens, I still think both characters led a pleasant life.

Maybe I'm supposed to feel sorry for Charlotte's character, because of her "sham marriage", but I think that's just life – love is never equal between two people. Each person always loves differently. But that doesn't mean she wasn't loved.

Again, I may be alone here, but I don't see this movie is a tragedy, but rather as a pleasant, slow-paced look at a very tight bond between two people that had just come to a crossroads. No big deal. Life happens. As long as there was love in it, it was beautiful anyway.

Please excuse typos/funny wording; I use speech-recognition that doesn't always recognize!

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Now she can find a guy who can get it up ;)

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