(Extra Credit) Why I Did NOT Like Laura Brown
DISCLAIMER: I'm usually not so opinionated, this is an exception. I might sound like a hater, but I stilled thought the movie was interesting and moving.
In The Hours, I found myself not liking the way Laura Brown was depicted even though she wasn't even part of the book. I felt that if she had been included in Mrs.Dalloway, she would be sooooooo much more than she was in the movie, there was much more potential. First of all, Laura Brown cries waaay too much to make sense. I get that she is clearly depressed but it's just about every scene that we see her crying. It made her much more 2D than she could have been because it mainly offered one perspective of the story. Secondly, her dialogue was so dry. Many things she says are repetitive and don't provide much of an under-the-surface view. I would not have minded too much had her actions been more diverse but a crying women who repeats thoughts over and over again is not what I thought Virginia Woolf would do. I think making her a bit less visibly depressed and giving the actor more dialogue would have been a better depiction (though I understand if there is not as much dialogue as Woolf doesn't put a lot of dialogue in her book.) These two ideas -- that deprivation of dialogue and diverse action -- made it much harder for me to understand and fill in the blanks of Laura's backstory. She was a character that I never got much of a background story for. The only thing that I can draw a line to for her depression is her guilt in being pregnant and having a son while her friend cannot conceive and might have cancer(?). She doesn't have much of an explained past that I can based things off of and that I can use to sympathize with her. However I did enjoy the scene where she went to the hotel and decided not to kill herself, that scene was more of a "Woolf" scene to me. What do you guys think?
(Btw: The actor of Virginia Woolf in The Hours was amazingly depicted in my judgement :) )
In The Hours, I found myself not liking the way Laura Brown was depicted even though she wasn't even part of the book. I felt that if she had been included in Mrs.Dalloway, she would be sooooooo much more than she was in the movie, there was much more potential. First of all, Laura Brown cries waaay too much to make sense. I get that she is clearly depressed but it's just about every scene that we see her crying. It made her much more 2D than she could have been because it mainly offered one perspective of the story. Secondly, her dialogue was so dry. Many things she says are repetitive and don't provide much of an under-the-surface view. I would not have minded too much had her actions been more diverse but a crying women who repeats thoughts over and over again is not what I thought Virginia Woolf would do. I think making her a bit less visibly depressed and giving the actor more dialogue would have been a better depiction (though I understand if there is not as much dialogue as Woolf doesn't put a lot of dialogue in her book.) These two ideas -- that deprivation of dialogue and diverse action -- made it much harder for me to understand and fill in the blanks of Laura's backstory. She was a character that I never got much of a background story for. The only thing that I can draw a line to for her depression is her guilt in being pregnant and having a son while her friend cannot conceive and might have cancer(?). She doesn't have much of an explained past that I can based things off of and that I can use to sympathize with her. However I did enjoy the scene where she went to the hotel and decided not to kill herself, that scene was more of a "Woolf" scene to me. What do you guys think?
(Btw: The actor of Virginia Woolf in The Hours was amazingly depicted in my judgement :) )
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