An Oversimplification of Her Beauty Page #5
As explained in the film,
especially that conversation at the end,
it's just, like, really
a rumination on
how relationships
or how each relationship
is so intricately
defined by the
circumstances around it.
At times.
Nothing.
So...
No, I felt uncomfortable because
certain private
interactions were publicized,
and mainly from
one point of view.
If we both got to have
our little commentary,
a little dual-screen
action,
it would have been
a different story.
And it's your film, that's fine.
But it was like my life
put on screen to
your music.
It's apparent to me that
you make movies about your life.
No, everyone doesn't.
You feel bad?
That's true.
The only problem is that
your truth will never
make you feel bad.
Hopefully.
But it's definite.
It's a definite fact that
everyone has their own truths.
And that's the eternal
cause of conflict,
and it's not really negotiable.
Like, everyone sees the world
through their own eyes,
so to see it through
someone else's eyes,
but still have it
be an experience that
you remember is a jarring
experience sometimes
if it doesn't coalesce
into my truth.
Is it?
Is
coming to theaters this fall.
Oh!
Your silence in regards
to your feelings was not absolute.
On two or three occasions you
did write her short-form poetry,
mostly sent via text message,
saying things like...
"I want to
speak to you in a languae
"that only you understan"
And...
"Where on Earth
can you tell the truth
"without negative consequences?
"Esoteric and ultimately
meaningless, I know."
Before making the film,
you did write r one rather loaded letter.
In it, you reveal that
when you leave her prese,
you stare at your feet
while you walk.
She said
she liked it quite a bit,
but has not replied.
Obviously, with things
such as mail,
the gesture is more loaded
than the content.
B, the second effect
of this behavioral mask
and assumed ambivalence is also
something that has not happened.
It is that
you almost never inquire
as to the nature of her
relationships with other men.
This leaves you to infer that she is
as flirtatios and intimate with you
as she is with
her other male friends.
So, you may
or may not be special.
Maybe she saw you stumbl.
The third happening is that one
evening she sent you a message.
It read,
"I think I love you?"
Question mark.
"I know I love you,"
was the response that immediately
jumped inside my mouth.
But instead, because
you wanted to maintain
your facade of
even-keeled ambivalence,
you did not immediately reply.
You waited.
She called you.
You missed the call.
Of course
you telephone her back.
Hey.
She said she had to get on
the subway and couldn't talk.
Nothing more was said about it.
So, you did your best to believe
that it was a lighthearted,
humorous transmission.
What is this acting?
What am I doing,
acting-wise?
Your just enjoying my company.
Oh, so I'm enjoying
your company.
Like when I tell you
bedtime stories and stuff.
You tell me bedtime stories?
Pretend like we're in bed.
Oh. Okay. Tell me one.
This feels like we're at home.
This does feel like we're at
home in Union Square Park.
Really?
It does.
You just got to tell me
something about you.
No, that doesn't feel like home.
You got to tell me a
story about something.
Like the stars?
That's not a star. It's a plane.
That's a star!
How do you go about...
Kissing someone?
You don't head-bump, eh?
You make your lips available.
So, you like...
You go 80% of the way,
and let them go 20%.
Right?
I go 80, you go 20.
Note one,
as of the completion of the short film
How Would You Feel?
had yet to create a film
illustrating her perspective.
You assume she had not
because of her full-timeb
and active social life.
After a few years
of waiting for her film,
you took matters
into your own hands.
The following is a trailer
for the resulting film.
A lot of stuff over here.
What kind of stuff?
A whole lot of stuff.
Stuff like this.
See that?
No Speak softly.
I'm learning how to speak softl.
What are you guys trying to...
Thank you.
This is your first film.
I think, yeah,
it's your first film.
And you are gonna,
you're going to make more after, I think.
What's the name
of this film gonna be?
First, there was the void.
A temporary void that lasted
between two and three weeks.
The void was preceded
by an explosion.
The story begins
either after the void,
or in the middle of
the explosion.
You cannot remember whic.
You fell in love
with her in 2001.
The last time you saw her
you said goodbye,
and left her in her
in a third-floor dorm ro.
You broke into tears when you
arrived at the second floor.
By the time you left the building,
your eyes were swollen shut
and your sinuses
filled with mucus.
While making the 15-hour trip home,
you saw an ext off the highway
with her first, last,
and middle name on it.
Then, there was the explosion.
After or during the explosion,
you fell in love with her
during the summer of 200.
You expressed this by giving her
a flower made of a gum wrapper.
You never chew gum.
Sometime after then
and before now,
she became very close to
you in a romantic way.
The two of you felt a mutual
urge to build a life together.
During the fallout
of the explosion,
you re-united with her
in 2004.
You had kept a picture of her
as a child in your wallet
for several years as a teenager.
When you later fell in love,
you noticed the picture was gone.
The Universe decided that you did
not need the picture anymore.
in 2005, fell in love tw.
Hey, don't make fun of me.
Of course,
given the fallout of the explosion,
she fell out of love.
Maybe not so much
because of the explosion,
but because of,
well, you don't know.
She fell out of love
and in love with her,
the young lady,
enter stage left.
And she was with him.
And she was with him.
And she was with him.
And she was with her.
And she lived on the
other side of the world.
And she lived on the
other side of the world.
And you were with this movie.
So, in March of 2006,
you made the movie.
A shorter version of it that
did not allude to the fact...
...that it was true.
You showed volumes one through three,
to be exact.
You did not tell her that the
film was about you and her
when you all were making it,
but you thought she may
have already known.
When you screened the film
for about 100 people,
they did not know that
the film was a retelling
of the story of you and her.
You hoped only she would notice.
That the film would talk to her.
And only her.
The following letter was written t
by Terenc in the summer of 2006.
It was written and sent a few
How Would You Feel?
The day afte told Terence
she was ending her exclue
romantic relationship.
June 14th,
2006, 5:
27 p.m.Remember how you told me
that you met this new guy
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