The Horny Heart 12

-This is a Mature Story (if in content if not plot)
-It's a The Normal Heart Fic
-It's a Ned Weeks Fic

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The Horny Heart 10

-This is a Mature Story (if in content if not plot)
-It's a The Normal Heart fic
-It's a Ned Weeks fic

You can read it HERE

The Horny Heart 9

-This is a Mature Story (if in content if not plot)

-It's a The Normal Heart fic
-It's a Felix Turner fic

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The Horny Heart 8

-This is a Mature Story (if in content if not plot)

-It's a The Normal Heart fic
-It's a Ned Weeks fic

You can read it HERE

The Horny Heart 7

-This is a Mature Story (if in content if not plot)

-It's a The Normal Heart fic
-It's a Ned Weeks fic

You can read it HERE

The Horny Heart 6

-This is a Mature Story (if in content if not plot)

-It's a The Normal Heart fic
-It's a Ned Weeks fic

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Best of 2014: #1 The Normal Heart

I talk about The Normal Heart and why it's number 1 on my top 5 movies of 2014 list.

The Horny Heart 4

-This is a Mature Story (if in content if not plot)

-It's a The Normal Heart fanfic
-It's a Ned Weeks fanfic

You can read it HERE

The Normal Heart and the 2014 Emmys

Since Hannibal got completely snubbed for this year's Emmys, I was cheering on The Normal Heart which is my pick for best movie of 2014 (this is the only movie on the list that I'm certain will not change its rank by the end of the year). I was really hoping Mark Ruffalo would get a win for his outstanding performance as Ned Weeks.

If Ruffalo failed in his role of Ned then the movie wouldn't have had much of an impact as he was the central character and you were meant to connect with him.

So how did the Emmys treat The Normal Heart this year?

The Horny Heart 3

-This is a Mature Story (if in content if not plot)
-It's a The Normal Heart fanfic
-It's a Ned Weeks fanfic

You can read it HERE

The Horny Heart 2

-This is a Mature Story (if in content if not plot)
-It's a The Normal Heart fanfic
-It's a Ned Weeks fanfic

You can read it HERE

The Horny Heart 1

-This is a Mature Story (if in content if not plot)
-It's a The Normal Heart fanfic
-It's a Ned Weeks fanfic

You can read it HERE

Sayings Sundays (June 8, 2014)

The Normal Heart is a wonderful movie (based on the play by Larry Kramer) about a gay activist during the start of the AIDS outbreak. By wonderful I mean totally heartbreaking. It follows Ned's relationship with Felix as he tries to deal with the AIDS outbreak. This includes trying to bring attention to the seriousness of the disease as everyone in power turns a blind eye.

I would highly recommend you see this movie and I'd recommend the play if I had seen/read it. But that might be in the future if I can deal with all the heartbreak again.

I chose this quote as it's one of the things this movie is about: acceptance of the gay community since they are normal people and normal people love.

I was listening to "I Forgive You" by Kelly Clarkson and the line 'we were just a couple of kids' stuck out to me. I knew I would have to relate it to Animorphs but I didn't know how.

Then it occurred to me it could be a nice Jake/Cassie (aka Cake) song talking about their lives after the war.

After the war Jake and Cassie aren't together. They had both changed so much that they couldn't be together. I chose the lyrics to show that Cassie forgives Jake for all the fucked up things he did during the war and that she forgives herself for not being as moral as she should've been. But she finds that forgiving both of them doesn't make her feel any better.

Cassie also thinks there were some bad things they both did during the war because they were kids. They were thirteen when the war started, so of course they would make mistakes that even adults would have trouble avoiding.

The Normal Heart (2014)

Title: The Normal Heart

Based on the Play By: Larry Kramer

Director: Ryan Murphy

Starring: Mark Ruffalo, Jonathan Groff, and Frank De Julio

Rated: TV Movie (HBO)

Released: 2014

Personal Rating: 6/6

Oscars: N/A

Plot: A gay activist attempts to raise HIV/AIDS awareness during the early 1980s.
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A Real Tearjerker
I am not usually one to come away crying from a movie. Crying multiple times during a movie is nearly unheard of for me. So the fact that this movie pulled all the right heart strings to make me do so is beyond amazing. And why wouldn't this movie move me? The subject matter isn't happy and so neither is this movie. It is a time of history that needs to be remembered even though it is painful to do so. I'm only 27, as of viewing the movie, so I didn't have personal experience with the time period. I'd probably have left the movie with even more tears than I did if I were older.

Nice Bit of Continuity
There is a shot near the beginning of the movie where people are dancing and the camera eventually ends up looking at Ned who is just watching. He seems like he wants to join but he just doesn't have it in him to. That's basically me at parties and why I don't go to them for the most part. So I connected with Ned in that shot. Near the very end of the movie, right before the credits, there is the same basic shot of people dancing and the camera eventually ending up at Ned. But the feelings of both shots are completely different. It is a wonderful and haunting bit of continuity.

Ned's Tactics
Ned is a character that sees a goal and fights for it. He can't help but fight. This does mean that he angers his allies just as much as his enemies. Though his fighting may seem very strong it is his copping mechanism. He is afraid of failing so much that he acts strong so that he'll believe it and not become weak. His anger, though, is applied to his opponents and people he believes are bullshitting him. Ned can be a very kind and caring person to those he likes.

Final Thoughts
There is so much that can't be covered in a short review like this. My written reviews, like this one, are meant to look at what I consider the most important parts, and sometimes the only ones I can really remember, and not analyzing every little detail of the movie. So there is a lot I couldn't cover here. Jim Parsons does a great job. I am used to him playing Sheldon on The Big Bang Theory and so couldn't help but think of that while watching. This film came on my radar because Mark Ruffalo is in it. He is a great choice to play Ned. Plus Ned can be so adorable at times like when he is having his first dinner date with Felix.

The Normal Heart and Not Giving a Sh*t

I talk about a scene from The Normal Heart and how it affects people today.