Love this movie. This final scene sums up the movie beautifully. Orlando reclines under a tree reflecting on his/her 400 or so years of life (from beginning of movie to now). In a moment of unity Orlando knows he is neither woman nor man, that her/his journey is the face of humanity wears through each generation's struggle with gender. Orlando dealt with each generation's assumption of what is to be a man or a woman. The cupid/angel (singer Jimmy Somerville) is an externalization of Orlando's realization. The lyrics of the song voices "her" realization. When Orlando looks at us the viewer "he" is saying "she" is us and we are "her". The image of Buddha under the Bodhi tree comes to mind.
I was stoned when i first saw this movie. The ending completely blew me away. It sounds trite now, to talk about women returning the gaze, although it still seems to hold it's message. The image of a young girl running around with the camera and filming her mother/father was so powerful to me...and i'm a man!
I remember when it came out in 93 and the local film reviewer gave it 2 out of 5 stars. I wanted to see it because I like period movies and it's probably in my top five of the greatest movies I've ever seen.
I love this song so much that I don’t dare to download it. I would play it too often and ruin it. It’s one of those that you remember when you need to hear it and it lifts you up. Wow.
I wasn't aware this movie existed until recently. I wish I could see it on big screen. I'll try to coax one of the local repertoire movie houses to show it for it's 40th anniversary. ( If I'm still here. )
@@lucbriere Replying a year late, but you could always try this year or next year for its 30th anniversary depending where you live! The theatrical releases were 1992 for Italy, and 1993 for the US/UK
@@rhysking3597 That makes a lot of sense. I don't remember why I thought of 40th and not 30th. I doubt that any cinema will be interested though. I might just try to get a copy and stream it with some online friends on a discord server.
Hermosa película, estética, arte, emotiva, social, controversial, política y esencialmente humana. Amo ésta película desde la primera vez que la ví.🙏💞🌷
Wow, only now I noticed that they shoot some scenes in Russia and in Uzbekistan with assistance of local production crews. That's really cool ❤️🔥 Russia in the 90s was a very special place.
allowing awe for another individual in its more sincere way, has nothing to do with the physical "vehicle" they are in. The connection is beyond physicality.
laasat night orlando played on he sundance channell.. I had not seen in it ages, so watched it, waiting for the the great closing track with the credits.. ( I remember that distinctly as being very unique).. friggin Sundance runs an in housepromos over "speedy" credits.. I was pisssed... Thank you YOU Tube for coming through
This story, as it is told in this film, is a play in reversal on the myth of Demeter and her search for her 'Kore". The fields of wheat at the end is an obvious clue. The angel she looks up and sees is most likely a take on Helios, who sees all.
Please explain. I'm up with some Greek mythology, but your premise escapes me. I'm serious by, the way, I'd really like to know how you arrived at this conclusion.
I wonder ¿What Orlando has to do with gender issues or social expectations? Perhaps this movie is only about the journey of a soul trapped in a conceptual existence that wants to reunite with its origins again. The soul seeks the supreme peace and achieves it and them realizes that kind of peace has nothing to do with ideas of gender or Externalities. Everything is an illusion and Orlando destroys it with a smile. And of course, Jimmy is an angel of hope for each end. Amazing!
I heard somewhere that in the relevant mythologies, angels had no sex organs. They often appear to be depicted as boys in Christian paintings. So maybe they have no sex but have male gender.
Of course in paintings the subjects painted are always an interpretation of the Artist imagination and have little bearing on reality- so paintings are of no value in deciding what is truth, in both the Old and New Testament angels are very masculine, even warriors, - BUT they do not engage in sexual behavior, they are celibate and represent God's holiness among other things -
Who is loving this in 2024?
forever and always!
I often thought about having this played at my funeral.
Hopefully you spend more time thinking about the song than about your funeral.
So do I
Hell with you :))
Love this movie. This final scene sums up the movie beautifully.
Orlando reclines under a tree reflecting on his/her 400 or so years of life (from beginning of movie to now). In a moment of unity Orlando knows he is neither woman nor man, that her/his journey is the face of humanity wears through each generation's struggle with gender. Orlando dealt with each generation's assumption of what is to be a man or a woman.
The cupid/angel (singer Jimmy Somerville) is an externalization of Orlando's realization. The lyrics of the song voices "her" realization.
When Orlando looks at us the viewer "he" is saying "she" is us and we are "her".
The image of Buddha under the Bodhi tree comes to mind.
+Todd Heilmann perfect
+Todd Heilmann This film is such perfection of just being.
Todd Heilmann Perfect analysis
These 'walls' are an illusion.
The final scene exactly, when Orlando says "I'm not.. I'm happy".
I was stoned when i first saw this movie. The ending completely blew me away. It sounds trite now, to talk about women returning the gaze, although it still seems to hold it's message. The image of a young girl running around with the camera and filming her mother/father was so powerful to me...and i'm a man!
Tilda' Swinton's best performance ever.
Jimmy Somerville's best song ever.
Awesome!
Agree
I remember when it came out in 93 and the local film reviewer gave it 2 out of 5 stars. I wanted to see it because I like period movies and it's probably in my top five of the greatest movies I've ever seen.
Idem
It's a great film, something very special.
One of the few films-of-a-book that is as good as the book (Virginia Woolf, highly recommended).
I love this song so much that I don’t dare to download it. I would play it too often and ruin it. It’s one of those that you remember when you need to hear it and it lifts you up. Wow.
I completely and utterly agree with you. This is an amazing song!
Well said
This goddamn scene always makes me tear up and I have no idea why.
This film, and this scene in particular always deeply moves me...
Sublime is the word you are looking for
@paul w I too have trolled people. Your play list suggests someone quite different. Peace
Liberating song from a beautiful film...
one of those strangely special films i watch every year or so.
Saw this in theater originally. Best closing of a movie I have seen.
I wasn't aware this movie existed until recently. I wish I could see it on big screen. I'll try to coax one of the local repertoire movie houses to show it for it's 40th anniversary. ( If I'm still here. )
@@lucbriere Replying a year late, but you could always try this year or next year for its 30th anniversary depending where you live! The theatrical releases were 1992 for Italy, and 1993 for the US/UK
@@rhysking3597 That makes a lot of sense. I don't remember why I thought of 40th and not 30th. I doubt that any cinema will be interested though. I might just try to get a copy and stream it with some online friends on a discord server.
@@lucbriere True, it seems like it's a pretty obscure movie, but either option sounds like a fun time ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
the entirety of this film is a masterpiece
Something in this is touching so many - it must be true then - we are one....of course...who could ever doubt....
One of my favourite films, Tilda Swinton is fab, and Jimmy Somerville so haunting. I defy anyone to get this tune out of their soul xXx
I absolutely love this film. Finally found it on Netflix
It is on Netflix ?
Indeed, she is a beauty.
This movie was INCREDIBLE!
Hermosa película, estética, arte, emotiva, social, controversial, política y esencialmente humana. Amo ésta película desde la primera vez que la ví.🙏💞🌷
Мпгический,завораживающий фильм...часто слушаю этот трек,...душа требует
❤
She's so beautiful.
hermoso film, y la canción Coming de Jimmy Sommerville simplemente fantástica
an absolutely awesome film on so many levels
true
Love this track and the film
Thank you Tilda, sans Jimmy! Twenty years ago I saw the movie first time. Loved it and knew a score later that some of us are a bit different.
One of my favorite.movies
This song is a baptism...
This is life : we move from man to woman and the whole aim is happiness
Love this so mmuch
Always thought Tilda would make a great Elizabeth I
This song is intoxicating. I can't believe I haven't heard it yet.
One of the best films ever!!
Magnifico il film più bello e particolare che abbia mai visto Tilda Swinton eccezionale!!❤️❤️
Never saw the whole movie, but this scene scared the mess out of me as a kid when the camera showed the angel
beautiful soundtrack & film!
To be free in the present moment
This movie was brilliant!
I adore this
Special time
Smile
A perfect song for a perfect film.
i love this movie. and Quentin couldn't have played a better part, lol
Wow, only now I noticed that they shoot some scenes in Russia and in Uzbekistan with assistance of local production crews. That's really cool ❤️🔥 Russia in the 90s was a very special place.
Tim Walker photographes her very well i see her acting and i see so much more beacuse of his shots
Love, is a history of love... Sin genero eso es el amor. El amor no tiene sexo, tiene amor.
Those incredible eyes can melt any mans soul.
allowing awe for another individual in its more sincere way, has nothing to do with the physical "vehicle" they are in. The connection is beyond physicality.
Great Film,great music
I can so deeply relate to Orlando in this scene 😐 I'm not a man, I'm not a woman...I am a spiritual being 😇 to be free at last, I am coming!❤
laasat night orlando played on he sundance channell.. I had not seen in it ages, so watched it, waiting for the the great closing track with the credits.. ( I remember that distinctly as being very unique)..
friggin Sundance runs an in housepromos over "speedy" credits.. I was pisssed... Thank you YOU Tube for coming through
I don't usually post negative comments but that was idiotic on their part.
I'm keeper. i wish safety. we have PEACE, make LOVE🐝
WAKE UP！😆
Virginia Woolf!!
Great film for the times.
Charles Jeffrey brought me here xxx
Tilda sempre insuperabile
hugs and kisses. love.
Great movie, love Jimmy Somerville
A tale not of sexes but humanity. As she says "I'm not" - she's not sad.. He's contented, fulfilled without sexiuality
"look up there!"
This story, as it is told in this film, is a play in reversal on the myth of Demeter and her search for her 'Kore". The fields of wheat at the end is an obvious clue. The angel she looks up and sees is most likely a take on Helios, who sees all.
Please explain. I'm up with some Greek mythology, but your premise escapes me. I'm serious by, the way, I'd really like to know how you arrived at this conclusion.
i guess the mark of great art is that everyone sees something different in it that is significant to themselves
thank you, Todd Heilmann, for that lovely comment.
MARAVILLOSA ¡ MARVELLOUS ¡¡
Is the daughter immortal too, I wonder? Or does she just age very slowly?
Questions I can't help but asking.
+Nathanielle Crawford fyi, I saw the movie and posted this comment long before reading the book.
We r join we r one with the human face preety celestial love it
本当に好きな映画、このラストは謎すぎて衝撃受けたけど題材としてはファンタジーでもあるから謎でもないのか…と…
ティルダ・スウィントンを愛してる。
love Orlando
❤
I wonder ¿What Orlando has to do with gender issues or social expectations? Perhaps this movie is only about the journey of a soul trapped in a conceptual existence that wants to reunite with its origins again. The soul seeks the supreme peace and achieves it and them realizes that kind of peace has nothing to do with ideas of gender or Externalities. Everything is an illusion and Orlando destroys it with a smile. And of course, Jimmy is an angel of hope for each end. Amazing!
wow.
Orlando
The way of Quantum Theory
💙
I heard somewhere that in the relevant mythologies, angels had no sex organs. They often appear to be depicted as boys in Christian paintings. So maybe they have no sex but have male gender.
Men were sometimes castrated to maintain the highest singing voice.
I was 100% radicalized by this film as a young queer child.
ahhh Ecstasy
This movie was weird and very random to me. And the ending cracked me up lol.
Shallow aren't you.
Kit Cumbie Yep!
You should read the novel.
Look up Edson Cordeiro´s version of "coming"
Golden Princess Film Production Limited/Mandarin Films Limited/Film Workshop Orlando 1992 HK Original
Heroin name plz ??
Hercules & Love Affair?
天使的服裝造型實在太兩光太劣質了 瞬間出戲 實在是這完美結尾的敗筆!!!
Of course in paintings the subjects painted are always an interpretation of the Artist imagination and have little bearing on reality- so paintings are of no value in deciding what is truth, in both the Old and New Testament angels are very masculine, even warriors, - BUT they do not engage in sexual behavior, they are celibate and represent God's holiness among other things -
Nobody realized that he was after all a she?
...GAY!!!
mimo gej to stworzył fenomenalną piosenkę.
So?.........
¿ y luego?
.....The rational soul has no sex.....