Category Archives: into movies

the hours — michael cunningham

5 stars

In this book every­thing is hang up on one term: inter­tex­tu­al­ity.
Mrs. Dal­loway is the subject/object that is the inter­me­di­ate between three women, three, as it seems at first, totally dif­fer­ent and inco­her­ent lives. There is Vir­ginia Woolf, who is writ­ing Mrs Dal­loway, strug­gling with her story. There is Laura Brown, who is read­ing Mrs Dal­loway and Clarissa who is the late ’90 ver­sion of Mrs Dal­loway. Every woman has her own strug­gles and doubts. We, the read­ers, are given a look in their worlds, their emo­tions, thoughts and even­tu­ally their decisions.

mansfield park — jane austen

4 stars

Fanny Price, a young woman who is taken away from her fam­ily at the age of ten and brought up by her rich aunt and uncle. She learns man­ners, how to behave in cer­tain cir­cles. The only real friend in her ordeal is her cousin Edmund, who gives her paper and feather to write, and later on her uncle gives her a fair chance too, by giv­ing her a lovely fire (and so warmth) in “her” library. I really haven’t got a clue what more to tell . It’s just a roman­tic story about a very dull young woman. All is well that ends well. But I’m not fin­ished yet…

harry potter and the order of the phoenix — j.k. rowling

3 stars

This is the fifth book in the famous and by now clas­sic story of Harry Pot­ter the teenage wiz­ard. “He-who-must-not-be-named” is back now for only a lit­tle while and the world already isn’t the same any­more. Peo­ple fight a lot, Hog­warts is taken over by the Min­istry of Magic (which is not a good thing), Harry Pot­ter is being por­trayed as a liar and last but not least “the order of the Phoenix” is being formed again after almost 16 years. So much for a quiet year.

the importance of being earnest — oscar wilde

3 stars

A very uncom­pli­cated and amus­ing play. This play has every­thing a good clas­sic play should have: char­ac­ters with secrets, a sit­u­a­tion that starts easy but spins out of con­trol in no time, love inter­ests, con­fu­sion of tongues, lit­tle fights, a moral and a happy ending.

The char­ac­ters with secrets are John/Jack and Alger­non. The love inter­ests are Lane and Cecily. The sit­u­a­tion is John want­ing to marry Cecily, but she only wants to marry an Earnest. The con­fu­sion is in all the names the char­ac­ters have. The fight is between Alger­non and John. The moral is: be your­self and truth­ful and the happy ending…well, I think I don’t have to say any­thing about that.