Can I be you

When watching "The Hours", every minute detail seemed to be of vast significance. As it should be, "The Hours" is based on based on a book where every single character's thoughts are conclusive to the eventually outcome of the story. When I was trying to analyze the movie to find the significance of certain events, certain exposition, certain developments of the movie, there were almost too many connections to make. "The Hours" creates a parallelism all throughout the movie that not only links all three timelines into a cohesive unit, but also connects to Mrs. Dalloway in a way that gives even more insight into the original book.

In the movie, everyone is everybody. On the surface, it is obvious to say that Clarissa is a modern day Mrs. Dalloway, with Richard being Richard Dalloway. However, is Laura Brown- Richard's mother also Clarissa? They're both two women struggling with themselves and their families. And if Laura Brown is reflective of Clarissa, does that make her husband Richard Dalloway, or is he Septimus, an innocent man looking to start a family after returning home from the war? Clarissa and Leonard Woolf are both editors, trying to aid their ailing, writing, loved one. Is Clarissa both Mrs. Dalloway and Mr. Dalloway then? However, the beautiful thing is the accuracy of every interpretation. All the characters are separated in such a way that makes them all part of the same story. Like the pages of a book, every second is as important as the hour it comprises.