The Hours
So I watched “The Hours” again-3rd time.
Tt’s supposed to be about 3 women, 3 different eras-with connected stories. Frankly, I really think it’s more like 2 women and the third character is kind of a two people-one wo+man in one character-she is his storyteller.
One woman is mentally unstable (Virginia Woolf) and wants to die. One woman feels like she’s dead because she isn’t happy being a suburban mom, one woman is assisting a man on his way to death by AIDS. I really haven’t grasped the point of that last character other than that she completes the “female trilogy”. Basically, none of them fit the cookie-cutter woman/wife role. So they are all a bit off-and I think the characters are very gender neutral, other than the dresses, flowers and cakes-they’re unhappy souls not just women.
Greatest thing about this Oscar-winning movie: you can watch it over and over and find a new character to relate to/criticize. Certainly themes that people would pick on are 1) women’s role, 2) humanization of gays, 3) aversion to motherhood (abandonment) …I wonder if I would ever meet anyone to enlighten me on Clarissa. She’s the only one I don’t get.
The title is from the quote at the end. “And what about the hours? the hours during …and after…? the hours until the end…[until death]”
