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To: Neeka who wrote (22501)	1/2/2004 12:09:12 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (2) of 793549

I'm assuming that you saw the movie? If so, would you consider the poetic form of dialog expressed in the letters written by Ada to Inman true to the period? Was Ruby's ability to turn a phrase also indicative of the period? Yes, I saw the movie. My answer is that any one piece was possible, though the characters' dwelling on the nature of their own mental states smacks more of post-Freudian psychology than the 19th century, where someone would be more likely to simply note "low spirits". It's not just Ada's letter-writing or Ruby's sayings that give the movie its "gorgeous fakery." It's Ada and Inman's phrasing, piled on top of Ruby's Young Ma Kettle act, piled on top of details like how Nicole Kidman looks better and better throughout the movie, and Natalie Portman's isolated widow woman (believe me, the South wasn't so stripped of men that a widow who looked like that wouldn't have had instant offers), and Teague's uncontrolled rampaging (where was the community? do you think a Southern community would have stood for one second to have a respectable matron tortured to flush out deserter sons? men were deserting by the thousands by this period), that give the entire movie its air of falseness.

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