Hurro there.
Ummm, second post
It was our first wedding anniversary on Sunday. Love and I that is.
Of course we've been together for much longer than that!
More than 10 years!! (little break in the middle there)
For our anniversary we stayed up the coast for a night. We had a nice walk on the
beach at sundown. Gee it would be nice to live right on the beach and be able to walk
on it every day! I reckon it would certainly make you want to walk more - encourage exercise
having a nice walking environment.
Ok - as usual I am tired - so I'd best get to the thing that inspired me to come down and type...

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The movie "The Hours".
First movie that has made me think for a while after watching it.
I thought that was worth a blog.
When I say think, I mean think "what was that all about?".
So what was it about? The story is about people killing themselves. Hee hee. That is pretty simplistic,
but that's what I first asked myself. Is it about mental illness? Is it about death?
Is it about life? Is about women?

I think in the end I decided that it's about life. The meaning of life? What is dying? What is living.
I'm not going to explain the movie. You go and watch it and see what I mean.
I'm sure that people who make films must have some meaning in mind when they make them.
So I tried to figure out what the maker of this film wanted me to think about.
A review that I read suggested that it was about women being squashed by society,
but that wasn't the main point to my way of thinking.

I kinda agree with these quotes
"Telling "a woman's whole life in a single day," as Virginia Woolf set out to do in her novel "Mrs. Dalloway," "The Hours" focuses on crucial moments in three lives, gradually revealing the connections among them"
"the film contemplates creativity and madness, the deadening conformity of suburbia, the roles imposed upon women and the consequences of rejecting them"



Interesting that the other film I've seen recently that made me stop and think ("what the heck was that all about?") :-)
"Donnie Darko" - was also about mental health. Donnie Darko made me wonder about madness.
Maybe they aren't subnormal, but supernormal. Maybe they can just see more than us, but of course
struggle to deal with it because there is no terminology to describe it and
no framework to place it in.
Reminds me of something that I saw on the Real Ultimate Power site.
(see the ghost stories) It was said in jest, but many insightful things are said in jest.

By not defining what happened that day (or even themselves--their relation to it),
they never limited their understanding and they never limited themselves.

Well, it's 12:30 and I'll be tired tomorrow no doubt. X-)
g'night all