Hours, The
Three women, living in different eras are living lives connected by the lies that define them. As Virginia Woolf (Nicole Kidman) writes her book in 1923, Laura Brown (Julinanne Moore) is shown reading it in 1951 and is fascinated to learn that someone understands her pain. Meanwhile, in 2001, Clarissa Vaughan (Meryl Streep) lives out the life of Mrs. Dalloway, the character in Woolf's novel. Each woman faces the difficulty of expressing her sexuality as it is suppressed through different levels of heterosexual conformity expected by the surrounding society. Each woman learns that living a lie is self-destructive and the legacy of each woman builds on the previous for a more tolerable, however painful, existence. [Paramount / Jonathan Nolte]
Ratings:
Obscenities: 03
Graphic Violence: 00
Nude Scenes: 00
% Spiritual Relevancy: 21
This DVD review was not printed in ISSUE 103 of HM Magazine, and is thus an "online exclusive" of sorts.
DVD rating key:
Obscenities (fka: BL (Blue Language)) # of “blue” / cuss words.
Ideal rating = 0
Graphic Violence (fka: BG (Blood ‘n’ Guts)) # of scenes with graphic violence.
Acceptable rating = <50
SC (Spiritual Conversations) An arbitrary rating based on the ease of starting a conversation on spiritual things.
Ideal rating = 50+
Nude Scenes (fka: NP (Naked People)) # of nude scenes.
Ideal: 0 (A rating of less than 1 signifies questionable scenes)
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