The Hours

[Borincano]

I just saw the movie, but haven't read the book. (People usually do the opposite, but it was on TV and I had the time, lol) Has anyone read the book, saw the movie, or both? The movie was interesting, and very usual. I seem to have figured out the New Yorker lesbian and the Virgina Woolfe characters, but what was with the 1950's house wife? Why was she so unhappy? I understand that sometimes life seems too perfect for one and one might need to escape from it all, but to abandon her children and still have some contact with them later on anyway? What was the point?

[mentalbunny]

Well I sw the film, it's incredible, had me crying almost all the way through it.

You're male, aren't you? The thing about Laura Brown was that her life was not her kind of perfect, she didn't particularly want to marry her husband, but he'd come back form the war and because of that the girls felt they were kind of obliged to marry them. Laura Brown was not your standard housewife, she wasn't happy staying at home like that, she was trapped in a life she didn't want, but those kinds of feelings are hard for other people to understand because it looks like she's got everything, she's got kids, a loving husband, a nice house, all she could want in other people's eyes, but something's missing.

It's that which makes her leave, life at home is unbearable for a reason that no one around her can understand, she's simply not cut out for that culture in which she lived.

[iwwobblie]

The reason the 50s housewife character was so unhappy was because she was a lesbian,but felt trapped by 1950s society into pretending she was a straight "normal" housewife.She felt her only choices were to commit suicide or abandon here family.

[mentalbunny]

Are you sure about the lesbian bit? I know she kissed Kitty but that doesn't immediately make her a lesbian.

[iwwobblie]

It's been a while since i saw the film,but i thought it was clearly implied that she was a lesbian.

[elijahcraig]

I haven't read the book. The movie was very depressing. Julianne Moore's scenes were like watching someone on the edge, which she was. I had tears on the go in my eyes during her whole scene. I thought it was getting a little melodramatic in the kitchen scene with Moore and the woman with the medical problem...then they kissed! Woah! Moore also played in "Far From Heaven" about her husband being gay in the 50s. I haven't scene it, though I want to.

[Fever]

I really liked the movie. Mainly because Virginia Woolf is a character in it. But i thought its a really clever story, with a really interesting plot.

[Borincano]

Originally posted by [email protected] 22 2003, 08:41 AM
You're male, aren't you?
Well, I have a penis, so I guess that makes me male, lol. :rolleyes: However, the way you wrote it made it seem that that&#39;s the reason I couldn&#39;t particularly understand Laura Brown&#39;s case. As you can see from my first post, I understand that she was unhappy in that life - that everything seemed perfect from the outside but inside things weren&#39;t. :unsure: However, to abandon her own children for her unhappiness, making them unhappy? <_< I might be a male, but I know that any woman wouldn&#39;t understand that either. When I told my friend and grandmother about that movie (Both have vaginas) they were horrified that a woman could do that. :o Was Laura Brown&#39;s life so bad as to do that to her children;? there were other ways, people did get divorces back then, lol :D

[mentalbunny]

Well I don&#39;t think she was a lesbian but i&#39;d have to read the book. and about the kids, well maybe she wasn&#39;t ready for kids, some people can let them go if they can&#39;t cope, it wasn&#39;t easy for her