Mar 18, 2010 12:56 PM
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What women want
He was tempted outright. She was warm and willing – and slightly stoned. He had a jagged edge to himself
And wanted to bruise and chafe and play rough tonight. She flirted and cooed and talked naughty. He had driven her home from the party. And now they were on the street beside her block. The street weary lamppost livened up as he sensed action from the jock. She was out of the car and curled up to him; her finger running
over his face and chin. He was smiling, edgy, raspy breathed
The street was empty; the night careened as if shot with gin.
“ Come to my parlour”
“Oh dear do”
He pulled her closer and was about to…
When all of a sudden, his embers cooled
“I can read her mind, and of all womankind”
A nameless weight bowed his heart
“ Just not right, Just not right”
He bundled her off in to her room
And swerved off the porch, his mind a-gloom.
Marvin's Room
Bessie and Lee are in a room together and Bessie is arranging her paralyzed father’s medicine in a tray. Lee grudgingly acknowledges (mentally) that Bessie has given much of her lifetime to their father’s care. But now if Bessie dies of leukemia, the responsibility will be thrust on her. She is in a tizzy. At the same time, Bessie has endeared Lee and her son Hank. So much so that Lee feels she is able to reach out to him now (he was in a mental asylum for burning down her house). Bessie has had an episode when they are out at Disneyland.
As Bessie lifts the tray and is moving out, she suddenly loses balance and falls to the floor beneath. The contents of the tray are all splattered around. Lee instinctively lunches forward to help her up. It is then that Bessie looks at Lee with the most poignant eyes.
A look that speaks volumes! At once she is appealing to her elder sister for empathy. Those years of neglect. Her unswerving attention to her paralyzed father, which even took away her small pleasures. The unspoken beseeching look which is imploring Lee to take stock. The manifest insurmountable vagaries of life unfolding at the moment. And the fact that Love is the answer. All this is conveyed by that single look. Truly, it is Diane Keaton at her absolute best. In fact, it is no longer about Bessie communicating with Lee, but the situation and the superb playacting, which is taking you to your real self. You discover that all those thoughts and the resultant emotions and feelings are actually within you waiting to unfold. The pictures become a medium, but the realization is already within.
