Going To The Movies: The Hours
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Wow! What a movie! Incredibly visually stimulating, to begin with! Amazing colour scheme, each protagonist comes with their specific colour-coded scenes. This is the story of 3 very different women that are connected through Virginia Woolf's "Mrs Dalloway". One is Virginia Woolf herself, one is a 1950's housewife and Mum and one is a 21st C editor in New York. So, as you may guess, their lives are connected through a very complicated and interesting way.
Each of them has her own problems and her own demons to fight and each of them is dealing with it in a very distinct way. The events in the movie take part during a day in the life of each heroin, finishing with a very dramatic plot twist.
The movie its kind of slow and it might be a bit hard to watch for the more impatient ones. However, the performance of Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore and Nikole Kidman is superb, more than amazing. Each of them portrays in an unique way the sadness and feeling of being lost and not knowing what to do in a distinct, personal way, making it great to watch. Nikole Kidman, who even wore a prosthetic nose for the role of Virginia Woolf, won an Oscar for Best Actress for it.
It's a good film, bless Netflix for giving Mr.Boyfriend and me the opportunity to watch it, and it's a modern classic. Sad, touching and slow, this is what I can say about it.
Grade: 7/10
You can't get lost if you don't know where you're going...
