Thank you for referencing A Wind in the Door. I loved that book even more than A Wrinkle in Time, and it sounds as if you're absolutely right.
I really **love** settling down with one of your reviews. I hate to feel rushed when I read. That's why sometimes it takes me a few days to reply: I don't want to do a hasty read.
If the movie does half as good a job getting to the moment of Albert's soliloquy as you do--wow. It must be truly spectacular. There's so much truth in what Albert says, however much one might disagree with the guiding rubrics of social services at that point: people really need to listen. It's hard to entertain the possibility that you might be wrong--not about what's an appropriate outfit for a wedding or how best to can tomatoes, but about something truly important. I mean, we can't go through life pulling the rug out from under our own feet; we have to have certainty, most times--being plagued by self-doubt is a whole other problem--but we have to have ears to hear from time to time too, and that soliloquy puts it really well.
as though there might be a lemon in his future any second now--this made me smile, as did your footnote.
The audience may feel a sudden pang of compassion for a character who previously appeared to possess all the inner life of an unbent paperclip [Yes!] What a hilarious simile--and now I'm thinking of Clippy meme saying something like, "It looks like you're about to detonate some explosives. Mind if I hug my wife and kids?"
I like the line you quote from the nephew, too; that's great roundabout locution!
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I really **love** settling down with one of your reviews. I hate to feel rushed when I read. That's why sometimes it takes me a few days to reply: I don't want to do a hasty read.
If the movie does half as good a job getting to the moment of Albert's soliloquy as you do--wow. It must be truly spectacular. There's so much truth in what Albert says, however much one might disagree with the guiding rubrics of social services at that point: people really need to listen. It's hard to entertain the possibility that you might be wrong--not about what's an appropriate outfit for a wedding or how best to can tomatoes, but about something truly important. I mean, we can't go through life pulling the rug out from under our own feet; we have to have certainty, most times--being plagued by self-doubt is a whole other problem--but we have to have ears to hear from time to time too, and that soliloquy puts it really well.
as though there might be a lemon in his future any second now--this made me smile, as did your footnote.
The audience may feel a sudden pang of compassion for a character who previously appeared to possess all the inner life of an unbent paperclip [Yes!] What a hilarious simile--and now I'm thinking of Clippy meme saying something like, "It looks like you're about to detonate some explosives. Mind if I hug my wife and kids?"
I like the line you quote from the nephew, too; that's great roundabout locution!