Discussion Anyone else really taken with The Hours by Michael Cunningham (book &movie)?

[Demoplot]

I remember reading the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel when it first came out and seeing the movie and being incredibly moved - even seen. Being middle aged now with all hope in the past it resonates even more. When Meryl Streep says in the trailer montage; "I remember getting up one morning at dawn; there was such a sense of possibility. I remember thinking to myself, 'this is the beginning of happiness'.…I have lost those feelings forever" against the background of Philip Glass's existential music, it feels devastating but also somehow reassuring to have the sentiment so beautifully captured in book and film form:

 

[ARW3N]

Yes, both the novel and the movie does resonate with me primarily because it's non-judgemental about suicide. The problem with most novels and movies about suicide is that they are judgemental about the suicidal. In other words, suicide is perceived as an illegitimate expression of perspective.