The Home Song Stories @ 7:54 am
When Tony Ayres, an acclaimed gay director, came to Class 95 and talked about his movie, I was enthralled and knew that I just
had to watch it.
So I did. And I absolutely loved it. I loved it even more because it was based on a true story - Tony Ayres's true story. And I am a sucker for true stories.
This tragic local-Australian movie tells a beautiful, poignant story of his unstable mother, his sister, himself, of betrayal, suicide, regrets and most of all, forgiveness. It is almost literature.
I read alot about Tony after watching the movie and despite having a dysfuntional family and a messed-up childhood, he somehow became pretty normal - except that he's gay - and became a brilliant writer cum director.
When watching this movie, I can only imagine the emotional ride he and his sister had to go through. Especially his sister. And his mother, if she had been alive. She, just like in the movie, had committed suicide when Tony was 11. She finally succumbed to her miseries but Tony never understood her until he did the movie.
It was one that brought tears to my eyes. This is one local movie which I think is really worth the money.
I know that those who committed suicide were at the brink of their losing sanity and must've been deeply, deeply hurt that not one sane person can imagine. But then again, suicide is a subjective topic.
As they say, other than distance, absence too makes the heart grows fonder.
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When Tony Ayres, an acclaimed gay director, came to Class 95 and talked about his movie, I was enthralled and knew that I just had to watch it.
