“But, where is the
view?”
Home written stream of
consciousness 2/18/2013
A Room with a View was
a great film. It was definitely a journey even though the main characters traveled only half of the movie. This is because it was more of an internal
journey, a journey of the emotions and the actions that eventually led to George
and Lucy’s marriage. This movie makes it very clear that one does not need to
travel in order to go on a journey; a person can always depend on their
imagination. Nonetheless, a journey in mind is as much a journey as a trip that
anyone takes.
It is clear from the beginning of the film
that Lucy seems interested in George, but it appears that she is somewhat
constrained or limited because of the mindset in the epoch that she was living.
This makes it evident that social ideology can be very powerful, and it can
even influence how people think and what people feel, because Lucy sort of doesn't like the idea of marrying George at the beginning. So basically, the movie is a
journey of how Lucy changes her mindset from not wanting to be with George, to
marrying George at the end.
It was funny to see
how the movie started in the same way that it ended. At the beginning, Lucy was
with Charlotte in the hotel room in Florence, discussing over why the room they
had gotten did not have a view. At the end, Lucy and George are pictured
sitting on the window frame looking out to a view of Florence, in the same place
that the first scene of the movie took place. In my opinion, Italy was like the
game changer in Lucy’s mind, because maybe she felt more freedom in Italy than
what she felt in her small town in England.
Another noticeable
scene in the movie was towards the beginning, when Lucy goes to the church and she
meets George’s father, there is a tour group taking a tour. This was a funny
scene, because all of them were following what the tour guide was saying very
closely, and they sort of moved as a one unit, composed of a lot of tourists. If
one were to juxtapose travelling vs. tourism in the movie, the traveler side of
the story would be Lucy and her odyssey, and the tourist side would be all the people
that were in Rome. A movie worth watching!
Great blog project.(Don't forget to add the class number and section/Prof. name and semester on the sidebar.It's easier to see if you ) I appreciate your comments and insight about the movie and Italy as a "game changer." You write that it is not necessary to travel to go on a journey.
ReplyDeleteDo you think that a location can cause internal change? I was thinking about your change in the "About me" section. There is the journey of moving from one school to another-the university, which is like an academic journey that causes personal and professional "growing up." Would this change happen anyway if you did not have the change in location? Is it a "game changer" for you?
Yes! I think that a person’s location has a lot to do with their state of mind. An internal change can root from different aspects in your environment; in fact, scientists have correlated cloudy and dark environments with depression or feelings of gloominess. Basically any change of setting in your life can affect the way that you function, because it just disrupts your daily routine and changes the whole way that you’ve figured out to live your life.
DeleteAfter I graduated from my senior year at TASIS and came to UPR to study, it was definitely a game changer in my life. Maybe, it didn’t change my personality, or the way that I interact with people around me, but my school was very small. My senior class had 27 students, and I knew (and still know) all of them very closely, we were like a family, and I probably spent more time interacting with people at school than at my home.
When I arrived here, it was a gigantic change from my usual setting, because the UPR is HUGE and there are many different types of students here. It wasn’t bad though, I like the setting and the ambiance in the college of Natural Sciences and I find everybody there really cool, probably because of our similar interests. As for the rest of the people I’ve met around campus, they are usually pretty nice and friendly, but I’ve noticed that you meet people in classes that you might never see again, so this campus can be very dynamic, and your environment and the people you meet can constantly change.