It's Daniel Day-Lewis!

Hi World!
So I got to see the movie "A room with a view" for my Journey In Literature Class (every time I think about this class' name i think of Steve Perry with a book on his hand, i'm crazy).

The movie started as a very boring and torturous film until... Sweet baby Jesus! It's Daniel Day-Lewis, don't get me wrong, this is one of my favorite actors in the whole wide world.

Let me give you a quick overview on the film ...
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Room_with_a_View_(film)
(yeah, i'm feeling like a smart-ass today)

MOVING ON THEN!

So traveler vs. tourist is a very interesting match-up. Why? Because they both have to move to a same place but never because of the same reasons, a tourist will go to a place and try to learn about the place (sometimes) while enjoying the best that particular place has to offer, a traveler is there just because he needs to be somewhere else and is either resting there or passing through there. Lucy is an upper class free thinking girl who just wants to see the world (it was not uncommon for upper class young girls who were about to reach maturity to go and see Europe so they could "absorb"), her free thinking was overshadowed constantly by her "oh so proper" cousin Charlotte, who was hiking along as a Chaperone for Lucy. Basically the first part of the movie is Lucy's free thinking clashing with Charlotte's, who kinda looks like Rose's mom in the Titanic.

I didn't appreciate the tourist point of view in this movie since I was dealing with the fact that young girls were treated like a bag, they woud go to Europe and the world to fill up that bag so they could become proper adult women. Cecil sees his future children with Lucy like that he mentions that he was going to let them go to place A so they could absorb this particular characteristic of the place, then to place B and on and on. I really do get that traveler's sense of life and what he was trying to accomplish but the reason I did not agree with him and the reason I disliked the movie so much is that people are not chickens, they don't get to have a seasoning of multiple spices. People should decide what they want to be for themselves, IF they want to travel the world let them, if they want to stay at home and read, let them. In this movie's particular case I believe that a traveler is somewhat of a tourist/traveler hybrid (Professor, don't have a micro heart-attack when you read this, let me explain myself). A tourist is a person that goes to a place just to enjoy some of the particular offerings of that place, if we add the fact that Cecil said he wanted his children to go around Europe to absorb some particular knowledge or attribute from different cities he have a pretty awesome tourist/traveler hybrid. As stupid as it may sound it's still a very strong possibility, after all it IS just my humble and soon to be graded opinion :).







May the force be with you all.
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