and my thoughts are just my thoughts; truly based on personal hate & love
and mediocre experiences. if you don't agree, you don't have to
(agree & argue against me :)

THE HOURS
by turtleblog

The story itself seems to be for awards or Oscar material i.e.
tense & strong concepts of death(suicide) including mental illness,
gay-lesbian,problematic life and its crisis.

I failed to understand what're the motives or reasons that caused
these 3 women's problems. It's obvious that Virginia Wolf(Kidman)
was having mental illness, Laura Brown(Moore) was unhappy with her
life and overwhelmed by the thought of committing suicide,and Clarissa
(Streep) was not a successful, strong woman as she appeared.

I found this a retrospective movie or it's somewhat a mirror of myself.
Not that strong as in the film's characters though, I have a few traits in
common (nah..if you my friend you know it :)

As for the point of false gender- lesbian, I know that it can happen but
I, again, can't explain or point out "why and how?"

There're a few impressive lines throughout the narration of Virginia Wolf
(Kidman) and the conversation between Clarrissa and her abiding love
with Richard(Ed Harris) I've never heard or watched Thai dramas which can
successfully convey the feeling through the dialogue half as good as farang
series/movies.

A reason which I believe much possible is because the limitation of the Thai
language plus our social values that it does't quite allow us to carry the
feelings and emotions through the words. [I don't know, maybe the linguists
could answer this?]

The movie isn't for everyone, especially for those who aren't found of downbeat
feminine drama; otherwise you're likely to walk out with the cloud of depression.
But it's what I like! I'm a kind of half-empty, not half full and I'm thrilled by
sweet madness, bitterness and sorrow, but not the tears of joy.

What you think about 'death' and 'suicide'? If one can be no more happy or
enjoy with life, he/she has rights to end it? What's the reason which is reasonable
enough to do/ not to do so and who's the judge? What's more important -memory
or experience?

With 3 different stories of 3 different women at 3 different periods of time, you
might forget that it's the event happened in "one single day." This can tell you of
what?.....maybe you don't have to take years to get to know life as it can be a
sudden and you can learn to know the fullest of it within one day - 24 hours.
Clarrisa(Steep) told her daughter that when she woke up and thought it was
"the beginning of happiness", but she wasn't, at that time, aware that it was
actually 'Happiness'

So, you do the math. There must be something, one or a few more, that occurred
to you and you just ignored it. Why don't spend some time with yourself and think
over the things you never pay attention to or you usually ignore or take it for
granted?

One day, you might somehow find that spur of moment, the moment of your own
life and that's life ... that's "The Hours"

*Recommended*