Movie Critic Review: The Hours (2002)
" You know, that feeling? And I remember thinking to myself: So, this is the beginning of happiness. This is where it starts. And of course there will always be more. It never occurred to me it wasn't the beginning. It was happiness. It was the moment. Right then." Clarissa Vaughn Meryl Streep Movie Critic Review: The Hours Tweet Based on the novel 'The Hours' by Michael Cunningham winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Award in 1999, The movie by the same name, merits t he attention of movie-lovers not only because it replaces action, the defining attribute of the post-modern motion picture, by intense visual representations of consciousness and its afflictions, but also by achieving this through evocations of cinematic equivalents to powerful l iterary techniques such as free-flowing i deation (fantasy) and internal monologue. The novel on which David Hare , the screen writer, has based his ingenious scenario is t...