The Hours (I spent watching The Hours)

Even though it isn't the most exciting movie (unlike a movie I recently saw called Hobo with a Shotgun), The Hours is an interesting twist on Virginia Woolf's novel Mrs. Dalloway. Having just recently wrote a pastiche on Virginia Woolf's writing style, I realize that this movie is a cinematic version of our pastiche writing assignment. This makes me wonder whether or not the screenwriters actually wrote it as if Virginia Woolf herself was writing it. Since Virginia Woolf's writing style is already very cinematic, making a movie based on her work seems like the perfect pastiche. Conversely, I realized that if Virginia Woolf was a screenwriter, she could write the greatest chick flicks ever.

One of the things I noticed about the story in The Hours is that unlike the book Mrs. Dalloway, the movie includes Virginia Woolf's side of the story. More importantly, Virginia serves as a shot caller in the movie. Since the movie makes all the characters seem so real, Virginia Woolf seems almost like a god in the way she controls their destinies with her ideas. This makes me think that the story in the movies may tie to Greek mythology in the sense that she is a god with her own particular personality. The only problem with this is that I don't know which god she would be.

Despite its uneventfulness, The Hours is an intricate and interesting twist on a literary classic.