Advantages: Visually stunning, well acted Disadvantages: Disturbing scenes
Pretentious visual masturbation or groundbreaking inspired filmmaking? Peter Greenaway's films have always split critics and audiences alike. One thing that can be said is that he never tried to compromise his ideas or vision to suit a mainstream cinema audience. From his early minor success with 'The Draughtsman's Contract' (1982), 'A Zed & Two Noughts' (1985) to the more commercial 'The Cook the Thief His Wife & Her Lover' (1989) he has always provided a grand screen spectacle and enough controversy to keep critical tongues wagging.
'The Baby of Macon' (1993) fits the bill. It is rated by some has his best film to date, its themes of sexual exploitation, violence and institutional hypocrisy have made it also one of his most notorious films.
'The Baby of Macon' is a 'play within a play' or more accurately a play within a film. In ...
The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler
This book was written in 1985 and it won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction. Then in 1988 the book was adapted for a film which starred William Hurt, Kathleen Turner and Geena Davis.
The story is set in Baltimore, Maryland and the story centres on Macon Leary who is a Travel Guide writer. His son who was twelve had been killed in a shooting incident at a fast food restaurant. Sarah his wife and Macon were coping with the loss of their son separately and there marriage was under the strain of collapsing. Eventually Sarah did leave.
Macon had a fall and became unable to look after himself so he stayed with is Sister who was called Rose and Porter and Charles who were his brothers they were a little strange and eccentric. Charles had very strange habits and he had to have ...
Advantages: Great story line and brillant characters Disadvantages: none
I am not really a book worm and only occasionally read books, but this one I really enjoyed reading recently and thought I would share my opinion with you.
WHAT’S THE STORY ?
Well it’s about a couple, called Macon and Sarah, who lost their twelve year old son Ethan, who was murdered in a burger bar hold up in a summer camp. Since his death, Marcon has retreated into a life of rituals and habits and Sarah has desperately sought ways to express her anger and grief at losing her son. Sarah decides to leave Macon and he drifts into an affair with a lady named Muriel, who is dizzy dog-kennel owner, who tries to turn the stability of his ordered life around. He finds it unable to cope, so he returns to Sarah, until eventually he realises that he must make choices to get his life in order.
THEME
A journey of self ...
