the hours《时时刻刻》精彩情节分析与鉴赏.ppt

ⅢThe movie appreciation
Cynthia
in 1923 - Virginia Woolf begins to write Mrs. Dalloway.
plot summary
in 1949 - Laura Brown, an American housewife, in which she spends part of her time reading Mrs. Dalloway. 
in the late twentieth century - Clarissa Vaughn hosts a party for her poet-friend Richard.
surpriss
these two story lines interspersed together
space-time transformation
“The Hours”:at the beginning, the film director is very clever to seize the similarities between the three roles, such as they are lying in bed, waking up with confused expression, washing face in the mirror, indoor flowers placed, etc.
平行时空
space-time transformation
坎宁安以迷蒙而清澈语调、印象式碎片、瞬间的意识流动、深度意象和平行蒙太奇(montage)手法,配以流畅的背景音乐,描写了三位不同时代女性心灵世界。
Laura ,the 50‘s bright yellow flowers :fresh, strong, independent ,tough personality.
the flower indicate the ultimate lifestyle she choose: completely took feminist road and give up the family.
Clarissa Vaughn bought the bright red color interwoven with pink roses, like the warm spirit of heterosexuality and homosexuality flesh ambiguous double reconcile Clarissa Vaughn herself.
Virginia home’s purple flowers. Noble elegant aristocratic temperament, while depressed, introverted, it is a classic writer who suffered from inward struggle and died of depression at last
The flowers
Like Mrs. Dalloway, all three women get flowers. And, like her, all three sh