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Kelda:
welsome callyn.

If you want to read the original short story I have a copy I can email you. just PM me.

as for your reacton very similar to mine. thougth it was v sad movie and good, has a few tears in my eyes at the film. and then it just kept coming back to me over the next few days... and I joined IMDB and it all went from there

mlewisusc:
So many, many folks here now (and on the old IMDB boards) really had this experience - after the first viewing of the film, not such a big reaction - but within 48 hours to seven days later, absolute sadness, and unwavering fascination.  Be prepared for a difficult but worthwhile emotional roller coaster ride, and an intense interest that borders on obsession. ;)

serious crayons:
Getting back to Lureen's hair for a moment. Some people here may be too young to know this -- and actually I almost am, myself -- but back in the '50s and '60s women who felt the spark was going out of their marriage were routinely advised to lighten their hair. There's an old "Dick Van Dyke Show" about this (Laura decides to bleach her hair because she feels Rob's interest is waning, but changes her mind midway through and winds up with hair that's half platinum blonde, half brunette). And I recently read "The Feminine Mystique" (1963) and saw a mention there of women doing this.

So what a great metaphor! Not only is it an actual historical practice, but it's a physical manifestation of Lureen's increasing brittleness and dependence on superficial appearance.

brokebackjack:
Not only that re Lureen's hair, but it symbolised how the life and color was draining out of her soul from the stresses of being married to Jack.

Brown Eyes:

--- Quote from: latjoreme on November 29, 2006, 04:56:30 pm ---Getting back to Lureen's hair for a moment. Some people here may be too young to know this -- and actually I almost am, myself -- but back in the '50s and '60s women who felt the spark was going out of their marriage were routinely advised to lighten their hair. There's an old "Dick Van Dyke Show" about this (Laura decides to bleach her hair because she feels Rob's interest is waning, but changes her mind midway through and winds up with hair that's half platinum blonde, half brunette). And I recently read "The Feminine Mystique" (1963) and saw a mention there of women doing this.

So what a great metaphor! Not only is it an actual historical practice, but it's a physical manifestation of Lureen's increasing brittleness and dependence on superficial appearance.


Hey Katherine!

Thanks Bud!  That's quite an interesting little bit of social history.  It certainly makes lots of sense in the context of the movie.  Maybe her lightened hair is also a comment on the conservative environment that they were all living in... (behind the times, etc.).  I mean Lureen's hair was in its most dramatic stages of getting progressively lighter in the late '70s and early '80s.


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