OOFF!!....yes I am actually exhausted right now! I didn’t get the time to sigh actually, in the past two hours that I spent, glued in front of my telescreen watching a magnificient piece of work...THE HOURS..!! The masterful creation made me realise what meditation could be like....(never tried it before)..It is undoubtedly one of the best moments of creativity captured on camera! The talentquotent and the emotional appeal is so high that it drains you into a nervous wreck, everything seems insignificant....almost non existant!....Time passes by with THE HOURS....wish the background piano would never have stopped..but all good things do come to an end!!!
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Three women, three time periods and one man...
The film opens with Virginia(Kidman) coping with her mental illness which leads her to committing suicide.She has had enough of Richmond where Leonard her husband has bought her so she could cope with her hallusinations.She thinks of the opening line of her book....’’Mrs dalloway thaught she would buy the flowers herself today’’
Roughly 20 years later a young house wife(Moore)along with her son Richard is exhausted by the simple task of baking a cake for herhusband’s birthday!...the guilt she feels is uncommon and exasparating!
Mrs Dalloway(Meryl Streep...a lesbian living in present day NYC) tells her girlfriend that she would by the flowers herself today for the party she is having for the gay poet Richard (Ed Haris).....her ex lover!
Three episodes change the lives of four people....they experience wisdom, love and realise the uselesness of regret.....they realise the
meaning of hope...of love...of life...of the hours that always pass by!
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The film is packed with stunning performances par excellance..
Nichole Kidman what with her fake nose shines as the authoress Virginia Wolf excels!...she is marked by a remarkable brilliance of subtlety and oozes class! Her depressing portryal of a suffering victim of hallusinations is one of her best..!
Julianne Moore is c’est magnifique. She plays the confused housewife with intended gloom giving a texture impeccable!
Has Meryl Streep ever been anything less than outstanding??
Ed Harris as the mently downtrodden poet suffering from AIDS....can agony get better??
The supporting cast including Claire Danes and John C. Reilly shine.....
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I wish I could meet director Stephen Daldry.......maybe his presence could be as radiant and dense as his film! The tension and drama nonstop have to be the works of a stalwart or a caliber higher.....
The background score is one of the best I’ve heard and adds 90% to the scriptic tension with its meandaring melody.
The camera , costumes and art are of a superior league!.....
Yes, THE HOURS does manage to create cinematic history.....indeed!!
Not to be missed!!
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