A Walk on the Moon
This is an excerpt from the paper...
In the movie A Walk on the Moon (1999), directed by Tony Goldwyn, the character Pearl, played by Diane Lane, is forced to make a choice between two men with whom she interacts in entirely different ways. One man is her husband, Marty (Leiv Schreiber). The other man is a hippie entrepreneur known at the summer camp as the ôblouse manö, played by Viggo Mortenson. In a sense, Pearl must choose between two types of intimacy that she wants in her life. Her husband represents the stable and the familiar, an intimacy that has grown over time with shared tasks, emotional disclosure and goals. Walker Jerome, the ôblouse manö, on the other hand, represents something new and exciting and offers physical intimacy and variety that Pearl did not get from her husband.The story begins at the beginning of the summer, when Pearl, a young Jewish housewife, spends the summer at a Jewish family camp with her son, daughter and mother-in-law, as well as with other friends. Her husband Marty either canÆt or wonÆt take time off and works in the city during the week and comes up to the camp to visit on weekends. Early on the audience can see PearlÆs dissatisfaction with the way things are between herself and her husband. For example, at the beginning of the movie she urges her husband to take more than just weekends off, to ask for a regular vacation to stay with her and the kids. As pointed out by Adler and Towne (1999), she is demonstrating the typically feminine need for gaining intimac
. . .
Some common words found in the essay are:
Adler Towne, Pearl Jewish, Pearl Walker, Marty Pearl, Viggo Mortenson, Pearl Pearl, Walker Jerome, Marty Marty, Leiv Schreiber, Diane Lane, adler towne, towne 1999, adler towne 1999, physical intimacy, emotional disclosure, husband marty, 1999 pearl, towne 1999 pearl, predictability/novelty dialectic occurs, ôblouse manö, enjoy physicality, types intimacy, task raising children, levels intimacy,
Approximate Word count = 888
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page)
More Essays on A Walk on the Moon
|
Customer Service
to Over
32,000 Professionally Written Papers!!!
