I have to say, this ending is more...emotionally satisfying for me. Because I usually like happy endings. Or at least hopeful ones. seperis's "Mexico City" has been haunting me for weeks. Mostly because I wasn't prepared for the ending--at all, but also because it's just...so distinctly NOT happy.
So this ending lifts my mood, and I really like it. But I really think that the other ending also, for lack of a better way to put it, finished the story. I didn't feel like there was anything left out, really. I was, honestly, a little confused. Or maybe it's just that I connected with the story on an intellectual level, and with this ending it hits me on a more emotional level. I feel the longing and the loss here more strongly. I don't really know why, or if that is really a valid interpretation.
The other thing to take into consideration, is the fact that I'm packed and ready to leave Japan at the end of my first semester of being an exchange student. I have friends that I are going home to countries all around the world, that I have to recognize I may never see again. I'm feeling a little lost, and a little scared of the changes that next semester will bring, and a lot sad at the many partings that I've had over this week. So my own emotional state affects what I read into this too.
I have to say though, this line: But his father was as mute as a corpse whose mouth had been stitched shut with glistening thread, and the rest was silence. Was a punch in the gut. I really liked that. Was it in the other version and I missed it? I think I would remember it, but it has been a rough few days.
Also, I just realized that in the middle of one of the many crisis of the last bit, I totally forgot to come back and comment on the other version. I have to say, there at the end I really thought that John's dad had possessed him. That was the impression that I got. I liked it. But it freaked me out almost as much as "Something Wicked" did. I liked that too, but it was freaky.
Anyway, it's probably best not to listen to closely to anything I say right now. I can't even begin to pretend that I'm all here this week.
But I really liked both stories, just for different reasons. Really. I liked them. Going now. *goes*
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So this ending lifts my mood, and I really like it. But I really think that the other ending also, for lack of a better way to put it, finished the story. I didn't feel like there was anything left out, really. I was, honestly, a little confused. Or maybe it's just that I connected with the story on an intellectual level, and with this ending it hits me on a more emotional level. I feel the longing and the loss here more strongly. I don't really know why, or if that is really a valid interpretation.
The other thing to take into consideration, is the fact that I'm packed and ready to leave Japan at the end of my first semester of being an exchange student. I have friends that I are going home to countries all around the world, that I have to recognize I may never see again. I'm feeling a little lost, and a little scared of the changes that next semester will bring, and a lot sad at the many partings that I've had over this week. So my own emotional state affects what I read into this too.
I have to say though, this line: But his father was as mute as a corpse whose mouth had been stitched shut with glistening thread, and the rest was silence. Was a punch in the gut. I really liked that. Was it in the other version and I missed it? I think I would remember it, but it has been a rough few days.
Also, I just realized that in the middle of one of the many crisis of the last bit, I totally forgot to come back and comment on the other version. I have to say, there at the end I really thought that John's dad had possessed him. That was the impression that I got. I liked it. But it freaked me out almost as much as "Something Wicked" did. I liked that too, but it was freaky.
Anyway, it's probably best not to listen to closely to anything I say right now. I can't even begin to pretend that I'm all here this week.
But I really liked both stories, just for different reasons. Really. I liked them. Going now. *goes*