Tearing
Rian has just finished glotzing The Hours and found it terribly depressing to watch.
Are we meant to imagine such pain in another's every day life? Do we experience such, each? Or is it entirely literary hyperbole?
Some stories settle a blackness across Rian's heart.
Are we meant to imagine such pain in another's every day life? Do we experience such, each? Or is it entirely literary hyperbole?
Some stories settle a blackness across Rian's heart.
posted by La Tulipe | 10:31 PM
11 Comments:
That movie is so overblown. And horribly boring.
The only character I enjoyed was Laura Brown, and only because Julianne Moore is so fabulous in anything.
Anything about Virginia Woolf is overloaded with pain as experienced by someone who truly enjoys suffering. Which makes it seem so unbearable to people who do not value 'suffering' as a primary force for everything.
Have I mantioned that I severely dislike all things Woolf or Woolf inspired? Wallowing in misery is not an artform.
'Wallowing in misery', indeed.
The entire experience was one giant wallow. Rian has still not recovered.
Hmm, I was thinking just yesterday that I should try some Woolf one day.
Wallowing in misery is, rather worryingly, something I seem to have a bit of a penchant for...
Other people's misery, naturally.
eh, i think she is overrated and one of those 'early' woman writers who have created a blue print for a lot of whiny pseudo-feminist writing . None of which I have read, so this again is purely a prejudice.
Skit, I don't think you'll enjoy her brand of misery, but let us know if you do...
You think clinical depression is something people enjoy?
Nope, it's not. Neither do I enjoy reading about clinical depression as a lament, perpetuating the misery over and over. There are other writers out there who have one form of mental illness or other, who write extremely good stuff.
Fitzgerald comes to mind.
I studied the film, the book (by Cunningham) and the text Mrs Dalloway at uni last year.
I can think of only one cure, and that is the Kath and Kim parody, 'The Hours: The Musical.'
Try and get hold of that episode, Rian dear.
Still haven't seen it myself...
"I can think of only one cure, and that is the Kath and Kim parody, 'The Hours: The Musical.' "
Bwah! That was hilarious, Kel is just appalling. That show is insane.
Emma has convinced Rian to READ The Hours. And so Rian shall. Although I am a ttch afraid the despair will settle in my bones; Rian is easily influencable by such things.
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