The Hours spent with Mrs. Dalloway

 The Hours was intense to watch but extremely honorary because of all of the different plot twists throughout the movie and how it is based it three different time periods. Although there were many plot twists and some concepts that have deeper meanings it still had traces of the story line from Mrs. Dalloway like the symbol of beauty through flowers and a man with a severe condition. In Mrs. Dalloway, Clarissa was always doing something with flowers like getting them for her party. In The Hours, Clarissa is seen with flowers also which she gets herself in both the movie and the book. Another comparison of the book and the movie was how they both had a man with a severe condition. In the book it was Septimus and he had PTSD, which eventually led to him committing suicide. In the movie it was Richard, who was Clarissas husband in Mrs. Dalloway but not in The Hours, who had aids eventually causing his suicide.

 Throughout the movie many other traces of Mrs. Dalloway were shown, but the most impressive and honorary things I noticed was the timing of the movie and the settings. The Hours is shown from three different time periods. One period was when Virginia Woolf was writing Mrs. Dalloway. The next was Laura, Richards mother, living in her younger age in 1923. And the most recent time period of 2001, where Clarissa lived with Sally. The timing and setting of each period would have been really hard to film but also make it accurate to the time period and still connecting it with Mrs. Dalloway. In Mrs. Dalloway, time is one of the most reoccurring themes throughout the novel. Connecting that to the movie made it more complex in how everyone was acting. Time is a big part in all of our lives and it a force that is uncontrollable. We see how time affects everyone in Mrs. Dalloway and in The Hours in just one day. This uncontrollable object makes people do unexplainable things.