Character idenitity?
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| Mon, 08-29-2005 - 2:20pm |
Is there any one particular film or play you've seen or book you've read where you can particularly identify with a character and if so why?
For me I absolutely love the film Shirley Valentine. It's a British film about a middle-aged lady who goes abroad on holiday for the first time. She goes to a small Greek Island and falls in love with the place and finds the person she used to be before she got buried amongst all the drugery of daily living, that has worn her down. The humour in the film is very British and is probably my all time favourite film. I can soooooo empathise with her character being the wife and the mother and not knowing what else awaits her beyond the life she has known for many years and her fear at stepping out and finding something new. Although I love my family there are times when I have longed to get away from all that it entails and just have some ME time that is longer than a couple of hours or a day with no one else to pick up after or wash and clean for and if it could be on a lovely Greek Island then all the better!
~Carol~

I hope you are feeling better, Ginger.
I identified with the Laura Brown character in "The Hours," regarding living the life I thought I was supposed to, in order to please other people, and feeling deeply depressed about it. I know it sounds like such a downer, but reading the book actually made me feel better, and review the choices I'd made.
I relate to Diane Lane in Under the Tuscan Sun in the same way.
in my last life!!!!!!! I remember going with a date to Borders
to find a book on her life, her eccentric personality, trauma,
develping modern dance. ( ballet and tap are my favorite)
Her love of men, women not liking her. These are ways I felt when younger.
yeah, I read the books and i was isabella Duncan in my last life. (:- )
Love, Leila