The Hours

"To look life in the face, always, to look life in the face and to know it for what it is. At last to know it, to love it for what it is, and then, to put it away."

Really, I couldn't tell that was Nicole Kidman, except now as I recall some moments when she was shown looking down with the witch-like twinkle in her eyes and a smile around the corner of her mouth. That must be the reason - that she didn't smile enough. Or the hair. It seems I'm not that good yet at recognizing foreingers - caucasians.

And not to have put it together - Virginia! Mrs Woolf! London! Drowning! It must be the Chinese subtitles.

So it's about three women who have lesbian tendencies and having to deal with suicide as a result of that (probably). One did commit suicide. One took the alternative of walking out on her family. The last one is somehow special. She doesn't really have a family. She's open with and lived up to her being lesbian. And (therefore) she's not... suicidal? Except for a brief moment of "unravelling" amidst stress of preparing for the party. In fact she's the one who's tethering up the suicidal friend - his "family". I'm glad it ended on the third woman (not exactly, but chronologically it did). Not because she faced a suicide in her life. But because she's in control and she has a daughter. Who's apparently happy.

The score is brilliant.

Yeah I guess I don't agree that life should be put away. To live for others? It does seem so a lot of the times. And necessary too. But the moments when you live for yourself and for life itself make up for it.