Wednesday, February 23, 2005
The Door In The Floor
by Tod William
(Based on John Irving's best selling novel A Widow For One Year.)
Commences on 03 March 2005
A very interesting story about emotional pain, mixed of comedy and tragedy that reveal a person's deepest and fearest secret. In the film, Jeff Bridges and Kim Basinger play a husband (Ted) and wife (Marion) who grieve the loss of their sons in different ways, each harboring secrets from the other. Some may say the movie is a bit melodramatic, but I quite like it, perhaps I love thinking about how mind work through when a person in a situation of hardship. There are some philosophies of life in this movie that I always agree with, and it is good to see them being displayed in the screen. [4.5 out of 5]
The children story that Ted talks about has pretty much pinpointed the main message, the mother went into the door in the floor and noticed there is a horrible ghost there, she ran out and lock the door. Later on when she has a child, she was struggling whether she should warn him or not about the secret door in the floor. She has chosen to warn him never ever open the door in the floor, but the more you warn a kid, the more tempting he want to know what it is. At last the child opened it...
Of course the story has developed this idea more complex - about how to hide a secret from others and oneself.
I guess many people, even the most extrovert person, have a door inside their heart, and most of the time, they want to open other's door. How self-protective are you? How much secret can you expose to others? More significantly, how much can you expose to yourself? How much pain can you take and can you afford? How do you deal with them?
Now go and see this movie! (not now, wait til 3rdMarch baby.)
[[audio: Feeder - Tumble And Fall]]
by Tod William(Based on John Irving's best selling novel A Widow For One Year.)
Commences on 03 March 2005
A very interesting story about emotional pain, mixed of comedy and tragedy that reveal a person's deepest and fearest secret. In the film, Jeff Bridges and Kim Basinger play a husband (Ted) and wife (Marion) who grieve the loss of their sons in different ways, each harboring secrets from the other. Some may say the movie is a bit melodramatic, but I quite like it, perhaps I love thinking about how mind work through when a person in a situation of hardship. There are some philosophies of life in this movie that I always agree with, and it is good to see them being displayed in the screen. [4.5 out of 5]
The children story that Ted talks about has pretty much pinpointed the main message, the mother went into the door in the floor and noticed there is a horrible ghost there, she ran out and lock the door. Later on when she has a child, she was struggling whether she should warn him or not about the secret door in the floor. She has chosen to warn him never ever open the door in the floor, but the more you warn a kid, the more tempting he want to know what it is. At last the child opened it...
Of course the story has developed this idea more complex - about how to hide a secret from others and oneself.
Marion is a very split character with different attitude in different roles, that is the reason why she could be either spectacular or too melodramatic. Whereas Ted is more simple, well...a bit erratic, seems like nothing catch his concern but his wife's happiness and his female genital drawings... However, the door in the floor always there, it is all about Eddie (A 16 years old boy who did summer work there) to decide open it or not, but someone has already warn him it is not a pleasant thing to discover. To the extent, he may not the only one who tastes the bitter, and it can also flick a person's mind to the other side.
I guess many people, even the most extrovert person, have a door inside their heart, and most of the time, they want to open other's door. How self-protective are you? How much secret can you expose to others? More significantly, how much can you expose to yourself? How much pain can you take and can you afford? How do you deal with them?
Now go and see this movie! (not now, wait til 3rdMarch baby.)
[[audio: Feeder - Tumble And Fall]]
