rosa_cotton | know that I loved you

Just finished watching Rodgers & Hammerstein's Carousel starring Gordon MacRae and Shirley Jones. (I know I saw it years and years ago and could recall bits and pieces of it; but I'm mainly familiar with the soundtrack.) Well, it was lovely. Gorgeous music and songs. Wonderfully filmed. Shirley as Julie I liked from her first appearance and felt for her so much. I was/am torn between liking or disliking Gordon's Billy with his violent outbursts, disrespectful attitude, and turning to robbery. Yet there was a vulnerable side to him, his "Soliloquy" about his child was very moving, and I believe he truly did love Julie. Louise's ballet was well done (as a kid I found that part boring). "If I Loved You" Reprise was so beautiful, what a voice Gordon had! His singing and Shirley's acting choked me up. Yet it was the ending, "You'll Never Walk Alone" filling the air, Billy urging his little girl to believe the words, that really got to me. "Know that I loved you," Julie's whole face shining, Billy going off with the sun and the sea behind him...I started bawling. It...the ending... I don't know the last time I cried while watching a film.

*blows nose*