“The hours” was certainly a thought provoking and dark movie. It is a movie about writer Virginia wolf and two characters (Clarissa and Laura) who are readers and reincarnations of Virginia wolf’s character in her book Mrs. Dalloway. Clarissa was planning a party for his sickened friend who was inflicted by Aids. Laura was planning to kill herself on her hu*****and’s birthday.
The main thing that bound the three characters was their common misery and desperate hold of glimpse of happiness. Clarissa recalled the happy moment she had with Richard when she was young. She thought that was the beginning of her happiness, but did not realize that it is happiness. Richard told that he remained alive for Clarissa and eventually decided to relieve himself from the hopeless life he trapped in by jumping from the window. Clarissa realized that the life she had has no difference from Richard’s life. It turns out that Richard was Laura’s son. He remembered the day that her mother tried to kill herself but returned to him. She was so immersed in her own pain and she chose to abandon her family, which must have caused Richard’s tragic life. Virginia was planning to have Mrs. Dalloway to kill herself in the original plan, as she was suffering from depression and constantly feel the touch of death. Death was not pictured as a sad event, but something poetic in the movie, like when Virginia and her niece burying a dead bird, or the moment that Richard felt great “happiness” and “freedom” before he jumped from the window. Virginia eventually chose the destiny that she did not design for her character by drowning herself at the beginning of the movie. The only character that has truly survived her misery is Clarissa. She finally made peace with herself. She smiled as Virginia’s voice circling in the room, “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. Leonard, always the years between us, always the years. Always the love. Always the hours.”
Life is like a tree branch, you can extend upward to receive the light, or downward to escape into the darkness...
