Enough for this evening. I watched first 15 minutes and I can say that the character is arrogant, egoistic, disconnected from the rest of the people and because of that she is shallow and uninspiring.
Will it get any better? Is she going to have a breakdown followed by a character transformation in the rest of the movie?
I'd say you'll be better off shelving it and watching it sometime in the future as an adult.
If you had bothered to read any of the comments within the very board that you have posted in, you'd know this is an extremely popular film, the vast majority of us loving the character, enjoy her company, and weep as we are with her through illness and then death.
This is a film loved by those with emotional maturity and backbone.
The self-absorbed will not like it one bit.
Little hard on 'em, n'est ce pas?
shareTo what extent shall we argue with god and nature regarding the order of what must be? Is life support too much? What of organ transplants, invetro fertilization, cloning? Is death not as important in life as is birth? How similar they are; each event affecting the loved ones surrounding the patient more than the patient.
I watched this film for the people involved and because The Pulitzer is not given every season; only when a piece of theatre lives up to the standards for which the award stands. Angels In America. Sunday In The Park With George. A Chorus Line. 'night, mother.
I had already been diagnosed with a malignancy when I learned, five seconds in, what this film was about.
But the topic: the discussion. Human mortality remains at 100%. Doctors are trained to fight death and, like the analysis of a sonnet, can become bogged down by the path and details forgetting the inevitable conclussion. As L Frank Baum wrote: All roads lead to Oz.
For all of us.
The film is not for you. Cancer affects anyone whether you are nice or nasty.
Its that man again!!
She eventually comes to realize that. A major point of the film (which she voices at one point) is her coming to realize intellect alone ultimately cannot protect her from the harsh realities of life.
But don't expect a Hollywood happy ending, with her dying surrounded by family and friends. Her one visitor is most unexpected, though most welcome.
Allow me to be more respectful; perhaps kinder than some of your other respondees.
You owe it to yourself to see the whole film. In what ways are Dr. Bearing and Jason different? To analyze and study a sonnet as one would a human with a malignancy is very similar. Trust the genius behind this. Edson, who won The Pulitzer Prize for the play. Thompson, an Oscar winning actor who would be Knighted by Elizabeth II were she not a woman. Mike Nichols, the finest American director of the second half of the 20th Century and the supporting cast: Audra McDonald with four acting Tony Awards and Harold Pinter, a playwrite of legendary status.
Good theatre requires growth from all areas. If you found Dr. Vivien Bearing cold and unfeeling in the first fifteen minutes, is that not a sign that there is room-no, destiny-for growth? Give it another virew. Someday you shall face the very same, either from the bed or from beside it.
Personal growth requires patience.
Bravo. ..
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