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Have you ever watched stand by me 👉👈

If not, you should, and if you have, what's your opinions on it?

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this probably aint necessary but just in case!! stand by me spoilers under the cut!!

Heya hon!! ok. I HAVE!! however it has been a VERY long time. I remember. likin it. for the most part. I both read the book it was originally based on n watched the movie n (again if memory serves) enjoyed both!! there is definitely a case to be made that both the outsiders n stand by me are DEEPLY similar genres (young group of poor boys, shrouded in tragedy, comin of age). n I remember the endin deeply affected me. I'll throw a spoiler warnin in here just in case anyone is interested in tryin to watch/ read it!! but the realization that findin the body wasn't some great adventure or mythical story. it was just a child. like them. who had once run n played n scraped knees. had once had a childhood just like there's. God. that shit left such an insane mark on me as a child. it was such a starkly different endin then you had come to expect from that type of story. it was (n probably still is) one of the best subversion of expectations I've encountered. I remember Gordie n Chris' friendship also left such a lastin ache in me. in some ways they remind me of Pony n Johnny. (Another big spoiler warnin) The endin of Chris n Gordie growin up n driftin apart n Gordie readin about Chris dyin tryin to protect someone when a gas station he happened to be in was held up. probably rewrote somethin in my brain. The book at least (n I believe the movie too) have a similar endin to the outsiders with Gordie recountin the story of that summer. the line right near the end: 'I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was twelve. Jesus, does anyone?' still haunts my ass to this day. good lord.