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I have not left the house for days. Because I've been doing, you guessed it, German. One source of solace lies in our continued movie watching...
Last weekend, to continue my Colin Firth phase, we watched The Importance of Being Earnest again. Very fun...
We also watched The Hours for the first time. I've been meaning to see it for awhile, and it was SO good! I wish I had seen it sooner. It is about Virginia Woolfe and one of her books. And the soundtrack is by one of my favorite composers, Philip Glass! I'm not going to say any more, because I don't want to spoil it one iota for any members of my potential readership. If you exist in this category, I recommend renting the DVD, because one of the features is an interesting short bio documentary about Virginia Woolfe, and not being a literary afficiado (I didn't even know she was British!), I found it very helpful and informative and enhanced my appreciation of the film.
And then last night, we watched Take the Money and Run, an early (1969) Woody Allen film, which I hadn't seen for a long time. Incidentally, it's also in a pseudo-documentary style, like Zelig. But with a much different flair. I love this movie, because it starts it with him as a youth, finding social fulfilment playing the cello in a marching band.
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Yo, 'Nette.
Any of your friends reading my post should stop reading now if they don't want The Hours spoiled, 'cause that is what I want to talk about.
I just watched The Hours on Tuesday night. Terrific movie, tho I found it very disturbing and sad. You are right about the score. I thought the score almost made the movie a symphony.
About all that women-kissing-women stuff - I did not find it at all homo-erotic, as some reviewers did, but I thought the women doing the kissing were trying to steal the soul of the women they were kissing.
The women doing the kissing, Clarissa,Virginia, and Laura, were the ones unable to enjoy life "as is", and I think they envied their counterparts, (Clarissa's lover, Laura's neighbor, Virginia's sister) who did love life "as is." By kissing them, I think they were tying to impute the other's joy with life into themselves.
Posted by: mom2 | July 18, 2003 12:11 PM
Hmm. that's a good point. Yea. I didn't know what to make of it. Because it didn't seem to be erotic, but I didn't know why. And then they would ask the women they kissed, "Did you mind?" I found it very confusing. I really like your take.
Posted by: Jeannette | July 18, 2003 12:15 PM
It is erotic -- in structure, not in its sexual content. Thus the appology, which arises from the act of taking possession of something which the other has, without having asked permission. After all, it's not the sort of thing one could ask for in the first place; rather, it is something one simply must sieze.
Posted by: T. Wit | July 18, 2003 3:13 PM
'Nette & Wit,
What I really had in mind was as God breathed life into Adam making Adam "alive" to life, the kiss was trying to do the same thing in reverse: taking live and imputing it to oneself. Not the giving of ones self (life), the the taking of another's life.
Tell this bear of very little brain how that is erotic.
Posted by: Mom2 | July 21, 2003 7:53 AM
to Mom2,
I really like your idea regarding the kissing sequences in "The Hours." I was at loss for the meaning. Other than that they were truly gay and had been suppressing it. However that just didn't seem to fit. Kind of like a puzzle piece that fits but the picture then doesn't line up.
Your idea fits and it is symbolic and literary. Especially when you expanded and compared it to God breathing life into Adam.
Posted by: visitor | January 4, 2004 4:55 AM