This movie has given me a new understanding and appreciation of a word I first learned in high school chemistry class: sublimation. That was when I learned that a solid could transform directly to a gas withoout becoming a liquid. But this movie introduced another meaning, and served it on a platter in the last scene.
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3 Women
(1977)
Do not read this before seeing the movie. What would happen if you...
20 April 2017
Warning: Spoilers
What would happen if you could surgically trisect the personality of a lonely woman into three distinct personalities (somewhat like Multiple Personality Disorder, but with no common root, and no need for escape or protection from a hellish reality) and put them in three separate bodies? What might they be like? Finally set free from the constraints of the others and allowed to surface and breathe free as individuals, what would these new women reveal about their desires and frustrations and strengths and gaping frailties?
One could be a child with amnesia, experiencing the world for the first time, as though she had just been let out of her house for the first time, or as though she were an alien from another world, a la Starman (1984).
One could be a young post-adolescent woman who learns her social and fashion and cooking skills by reading how-to magazine articles.
One could be an angry artist, disgusted with her husband, a useless, one-speed hedonist.
What if they could somehow find each other and become one whole person, greater than the sum of her parts?
What if they existed only as characters in the dream of a woman who had moved to a new town in order to put her past behind her and start a new life?
One could be a child with amnesia, experiencing the world for the first time, as though she had just been let out of her house for the first time, or as though she were an alien from another world, a la Starman (1984).
One could be a young post-adolescent woman who learns her social and fashion and cooking skills by reading how-to magazine articles.
One could be an angry artist, disgusted with her husband, a useless, one-speed hedonist.
What if they could somehow find each other and become one whole person, greater than the sum of her parts?
What if they existed only as characters in the dream of a woman who had moved to a new town in order to put her past behind her and start a new life?
Response to other reviews
20 May 2011
Warning: Spoilers
I don't normally write reviews, but felt a need to respond to some of the reviews that have been posted.
Some reviewers thought Monica Reyes should be dressed the same as other patients, possibly because of their preconceptions of what patients should look like in the hospital. But in the subconscious sequences, nothing is as it should be because everything is seen through Audrey's mind's eye. Monica perceives her surroundings only as well as Audrey does. That's why the documents on the clipboard are written in nonsense. But Monica does not see herself through Audrey's eyes. She sees herself as she was when she was conscious. She sees herself through her own mind's eye.
Some reviewers felt that the doctor had no apparent motive for killing patients. I thought the motive was obvious: He went after patients who had living wills (like Monica) so that he could harvest their organs. They died slowly enough that relatives could be notified and paperwork releasing the organs could be signed.
Some reviewers thought Monica and John had not known each other long enough to develop strong feelings for each other. These reviewers seem to feel that Monica's and John's relationship should have taken as much time to develop as Mulder's and Scully's. But:
1. Monica and John are not Mulder and Scully. They are their own people. They have their own brains and their own minds. Why should they be expected to have the same feelings at the same rate as Mulder and Scully?
2. Monica and John have a previous history together. Their relationship did not begin when they started on the X-Files.
3. A viewer should not expect two people to be separate and independent just because he/she has not seen their relationship develop. Otherwise there would be no men and women introduced as married couples.
Some reviewers thought Monica Reyes should be dressed the same as other patients, possibly because of their preconceptions of what patients should look like in the hospital. But in the subconscious sequences, nothing is as it should be because everything is seen through Audrey's mind's eye. Monica perceives her surroundings only as well as Audrey does. That's why the documents on the clipboard are written in nonsense. But Monica does not see herself through Audrey's eyes. She sees herself as she was when she was conscious. She sees herself through her own mind's eye.
Some reviewers felt that the doctor had no apparent motive for killing patients. I thought the motive was obvious: He went after patients who had living wills (like Monica) so that he could harvest their organs. They died slowly enough that relatives could be notified and paperwork releasing the organs could be signed.
Some reviewers thought Monica and John had not known each other long enough to develop strong feelings for each other. These reviewers seem to feel that Monica's and John's relationship should have taken as much time to develop as Mulder's and Scully's. But:
1. Monica and John are not Mulder and Scully. They are their own people. They have their own brains and their own minds. Why should they be expected to have the same feelings at the same rate as Mulder and Scully?
2. Monica and John have a previous history together. Their relationship did not begin when they started on the X-Files.
3. A viewer should not expect two people to be separate and independent just because he/she has not seen their relationship develop. Otherwise there would be no men and women introduced as married couples.
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