{"id":61,"date":"2003-01-17T17:32:22","date_gmt":"2003-01-17T23:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/?p=61"},"modified":"2023-12-20T12:19:01","modified_gmt":"2023-12-20T18:19:01","slug":"the-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/reviews\/movie\/the-hours\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Philip Glass score was not the only thing in <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/Title?0274558\">The Hours<\/a> to evoke <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/Title?0089603\">Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters<\/a>. Both movies are structured as three intercut narratives; both concern writers, their lives and their works.<\/p>\n<p class=\"cont\">\nIn <i>The Hours<\/i> one story focuses on Virginia Woolf (<a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/Name?Kidman,%20Nicole\">Nicole Kidman<\/a>), the author of <i>Mrs. Dalloway<\/i>. The second, on Laura Brown (<a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/Name?Moore,%20Julianne\">Julianne Moore<\/a>), a 1950s housewife who is reading <i>Mrs. Dalloway<\/i>. And the third, on Clarissa Vaughn (<a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/Name?Streep,%20Meryl\">Meryl Streep<\/a>), who shares Mrs. Dalloway&#8217;s first name and the circumstances of preparing for a dinner party. As one day in each of the three lives are intercut, one sees the echoes between them.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p class=\"cont\">\nFor all that this is a movie about writers, readers, and words, the emphasis is more visual than literary, more evocative than intellectual. During the opening credit sequence, the images seemed to support the music rather than the other way around. Philip Glass meets MTV. In a couple of other scenes, the music is shrill and intrusive, reducing some of the beautifully acted scenes to melodrama.<\/p>\n<p class=\"cont\">\nBut in the end, the acting takes the day. Nicole Kidman completely loses herself in the role. Julianne Moore seems perfectly molded in her place and time. And <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/Name?Harris,%20Ed\">Ed Harris<\/a> is gaunt and frightening as the Clarissa&#8217;s lost love, the AIDS-stricken poet, Richard Brown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"cont\">\n<i>The Hours<\/i> is engrossing rather than entertaining. Rather than tell a simple story, the movie wants us to feel the moment, the interconnectness of lives and books, of readers and writers. Some people might find it pretentious, but I like this kind of movie.<\/p>\n<h4>Bottom Line: Highly Recommended<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For all that this is a movie about writers, readers, and words, the emphasis is more visual than literary, more evocative than intellectual.<\/p>\n<h4>Bottom Line: Highly Recommended<\/h4>\n<div class=\"belowpost\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/reviews\/movie\/the-hours\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[189],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5139,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions\/5139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}