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THE HOURS(***1/2)
Starring Juliane Moore, Nicole Kidman, Meryl Streep
Directed by Stephen Daldry
Nominated for 10 Oscars

WALLY: Chic flick. I'm out.

WALDO: But there's a girl on girl kiss.

WALLY: Ooh. Hold the phone.

WALDO: The Hours is basically 3 storylines. Nicole Kidman plays a going
insane Virginia Woolf who's writing a book about Mrs. Dalloway, who's 2001
reincarnation is Meryl Streep. Juliane Moore is reading the book with her
own problems in 1951.

WALLY: Ok, you lost me again.

WALDO: But this movie is really about women at their crossroads in life.
Each faces moments of crises in their lives. But the movie isn't about
overcoming outer obstacles. It's about these women facing inner demons about
not belonging, lack of a sense of self and finding a purpose in life.

It's really refreshing to see a movie with complex female characters who are
mid 30's and up. This movie went though the machinations of everyday life
but it was laced with a subtext of impending doom and oppressive dread of
the person kind.

WALLY: What the fuck did you just say?

WALDO: It's a chick flick. You wouldn't get it.

WALLY: But you do. That says a lot.

WALDO: That says I understand the human condition. And I get chicks. In more
ways then one.

WALLY: That one being paying for it.