![]() ![]() ![]() In the film, we see each woman deal with life’s difficulties in different ways. The film has nothing overtly to do with 9/11, yet watching it was like looking into a mirror it was as if Daldry and Hare had tailor-made a perfect reflection of the emotional rollercoaster I’d been on for more than a year. ![]() It was during this grim time that I saw The Hours.ĭirected by Stephen Daldry (from a script by David Hare, based on the book by Michael Cunningham), The Hours tells the story of three women in three different eras, all connected via Virginia Woolf’s novel Mrs. The stench of smoke hung in the air, a constant reminder that the tragedy we’d all experienced was not yet in the rearview, as much as we wished it to be.Ģ002 quickly arrived and became a year of reckoning for me, of dealing with life in all its ridiculousness and struggling to find meaning in any of it. I WAS LIVING IN NEW YORK CITY on September 11, 2001, and for months afterward, I walked around in a strange daze, wondering what the hell had happened, what to do now, how to cope. ![]()
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