…Have you read ‘Lincoln in the Bardo’?
Somehow, I’ve seen The Holiday starring Kate Winslet and Cameron Diaz about a dozen times.
It’s never been an active choice; I don’t think I went to see it in theaters.
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Dark, nagging questions begin emerging through the film’s perfect white linen facade like weeds.
Consider this entire piece squarely in the camp of New Criticism as espoused by W.K.
After a few minutes, she comes to her senses (“What am I doing?!")
While she’s chasing him out of her house, she pauses with chest pains.
“I can’t breathe,” she gasps.
Really, I do.
Those fan theories piss me off.
Not every movie can be “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge.”
For Iris, her emotional catharsis comes from getting over the jerky writer she’s in love with.
He’s so wholesome he has a cow in his backyard.
He’s a book editor when Amanda had just been bemoaning the fact she wishes she could read more.
He breaks through her emotional wall.
Iris gets her gumption moment rejecting Jasper.
And what of Arthur Abbott (Eli Wallach), the only other non-love interest main character?
He’s an elderly man, presumably not far from death.
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Three characters were tangent to death two weeks before Christmas.
Three characters have stories that intertwine and become actualized in ways that fully align with their mortal baggage.
But maybe, just maybe, it isn’t.
