The Truly Moving

There’s something cathartic about watching a monumentally moving emotional or poignant film. If you notice, after watching them and reacting to them, you feel relieved (in a good way), it is as if you your feelings that have pent up have got their release. This was one of the reasons why Aristotle defined tragedy in the following manner. “A tragedy is the imitation of an action that is serious and also, as having magnitude, complete in itself; in appropriate and pleasurable language;... in a dramatic rather than narrative form; with incidents arousing pity and fear, wherewith to accomplish a catharsis of these emotions.” In a world and at a time where so much tragedy surrounds us and we’re constantly told to be strong and hold it in, there’s often nothing better than settling in front of an old fashioned weepie and just letting it all go…

The Hours

A trio of the screen’s best actresses – two-time Academy Award® winner Meryl Streep (Best Actress, Sophie’s Choice, 1982; Best Supporting Actress, Kramer vs. Kramer, 1979), Academy Award® winner Nicole Kidman (Best Actress, The Hours 2003) and Julianne Moore (The Kids Are Alright) – star as three women from different eras who are linked by their common yearnings and fears. Virginia Woolf (Kidman), in a suburb of London in the early 1920s, is battling insanity as she begins to write her first great novel, Mrs. Dalloway. A wife and mother in post-World War II Los Angeles, Laura Brown (Moore) is reading Mrs. Dalloway and finding it so revelatory that she begins to consider making a devastating change in her life. Clarissa Vaughan (Streep), a present-day version of Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway, lives in New York City and is in love with a friend (Ed Harris – A Beautiful Mind ) who is dying of AIDS. Also starring John C. Reilly (The Aviator ), Claire Danes (Romeo + Juliet) and Toni Collette (The Sixth Sense) – their engaging stories intertwine until they come together in a surprising moment of shared recognition.

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