The director, “Come on My Good Light”, Ryan White, a documentary that reflects the way he felt when he arrived at the house of the spoken word Andrea Gibson, who was diagnosed with non -curable ovarian cancer, his wife, poet, Megan Falla. Like their greeting, the documentary comes as an unexpected call and welcoming to stay for a moment, but rather plays a moment.
If this appears in contradiction to deep pain, arduous treatments and medical assurances of the early death they face, the film – which won the favorite Sandans Film Festival award on Sunday evening – is considered viewers of this idea. There is near here that allows viewers to spend a public at the home of poetry in LongMont, Co. ; To accompany the spouses on the visits of an oncologist and chemical treatments; And meat around their bed while the husband thinks of ridiculous and seriousness completely.
One can raise the intimate relationship of old -style good cinema, but there is something lyric at work. Gibson and Falli do not pretend that White and his small crew are not in their home. Quite the opposite. The couple treats the directors – and therefore we – with illiteracy. During a obscene dinner conversation with a good friend Steve Wellin, Gibson addresses film makers with great laughter. And the first thing they say in the opening moments of the film, where they stand in their kitchen that measures a dye, “I will tell you all, I usually feel upset when Meg edits my poems.” Laugh.
Falli stands close, says in a measured tone, “Tell them what you mean.”
In 2021, Gibson learned that they had ovarian cancer. “At first I thought it was a stomach error,” they say, they read a piece entitled “The Homing of Life”, while sitting on their office, their back to the camera. “But when I started to feel like an anchonda in the stomach, my doctor convinced me to get a cat exam.” The news is not good and soon become more amazing. “Come and look at me in good light”, very good on my existentialism. But Gibson and Falli are more generous in sharing their journey through the medical swamp.
Throughout the documentary, White benefits from Gibson’s words. The archive footage shows the shy and emotionally addicted poet who grew up in Maine, and began mocking the spoken words of words. Gibson, who uses the gender neutral pronouns, has become very common, as they sold music places.
In 2023, Gibson, the winner of the Colorado Poet, was appointed. In the midst of a death movie, hair is necessary. Through their words and actions, Gibson offers nice lessons about language, meaning, and harm. The movie invites us to ask ourselves: What is poetry? How do you make the meaning? Why do you provide consolation like a few other forms of art? All this blasphemy occurs even when we are transferred by Gibson and Valley.
Gibson is often delivered, which makes what they say more nun. Their running suspension while fighting in a continuous battle with a rural postal box is a riot. When the comedian Tig Notaro-on the stage appears to present Gibson before it may be the last performance of the spoken word-its existence appears to be irrational. Friends for a long time are dry, but strangely warm in the face of painful events. (Notaro and Willin were the instigators of the documentary.)
While undergoing treatments, Gibson is committed to two writing projects that lead to existential reflections. One is an article for a gathering of the unilateral poets. The other is a starting title for Maine Secondary School. Both of them have a meaning, but the real urge comes because they want to do another one about the words.
With another approaching blood tests for three weeks, it builds anxiety. Time and appreciation in the small things he also brings. When Falley downloads an application that allows them to see what he may seem to be old, it is idiot and sweet and also short of sadness that their relationship will not have longevity.
“This is the beginning of a nightmare, I thought … the worst fear became true,” says Gibson. “But stay with me … because my story revolves around happiness is easier to find it as soon as we realize that we do not have forever to find it.” These words of clarity occur early in the movie. “Come and look at me in a good light” makes the promise of happiness in that view.