Wild. Another long movie from this season worth experiencing. The long walk as an escape, a refuge, a refusal to be coopted by a society, and what outcasts often have to live with, as a quest to achieve something by reaching a powerful person, or more simply a journey where you are by yourself and can think, remember, achieve some perspective while keeping yourself intensely busy trying to survive: eating, drinking, shelter, sleeping, going to the bathroom, each of these supposed diurnal and uninteresting activities present which even in ordinary travel assume more central attention become arduous problems for Cheryl as she carries all that she needs on her back — this trope goes back to classical literature with Antigone leading her blind father, Oedipus, wandering (and there are many closet plays in imitation), but the first modern version I know of was a tremendous hit in its time, Sophie Cottin’s Elisabeth, ou les Exiles de Siberie, which Austen parodied in one of her last fragments, The Plan of a Novel (see etext from Republic of Pemberley)). Scott’s Jeanie Dean walking from Edinburgh to London to save her sister Effie, accused of infanticide ,,, https://reveriesunderthesignofausten.wordpress/2015/01/14/wild-once-again-our-heroine-needs-to-take-a-very-long-walk/
Posted on: Thu, 15 Jan 2015 00:40:43 +0000
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