Tele-Girl Takes Off!
February 7th 2007 05:58
HI FELLOW SCREEN WATCHERS ...
What are my credentials for writing on this topic? I’m a bit of a tele girl - growing up in the seventies what else could I be? It’s like an old faithful dog - always there, waiting and ready to share the contents of its dinner bowl: drama, laughs and lashings of trash. For the purposes of this blog, I’m including films via DVD or on the big screen into the dinner bowl mix. Mind you, living out in rural Australia I don’t get to the flicks too often. Most of my celluloid comes via DVD – lets call them ‘divvy’s’
In this little diatribe I’ll be having a rave or a rant about the women characters I like … or loathe. Women who inspire me, challenge me, make me want to sell my TV and take up astronomy, make me cringe, make me crack up and cackle and roll on the floor with a sore belly from laughing so hard, make me cry and those who make me BELIEVE are the ones who will grace my keyboard.
Buckle up your remotes, hold the couch steady and get ready to ride with … TELE-GIRL!
Six Feet Under. I love it. Having just enjoyed and endured a divvy fest of the ENTIRE series I am quite the SFU head at the moment! What a journey. What amazing characterisation - life, death and everything in between.
Ruth (played by Frances Conroy) is the lynch-pin who doesn't hold it all together. How can she? A life of caring for others and not taking time to have a relationship with herself has left this woman polishing and re-polishing the dining room table looking at a dowdy reflection she no longer recognizes. Ruth blossoms and stumbles, loves and hurts and tries - very hard - to know herself and her children. "All I want is for us not to be strangers, I want intimacy!"
Through Ruth we see the whole Fisher family - warts and all - as they leap and bound over the puddles of spilt blood and embalming fluid in their respective lives. I felt deeply involved with this character. I would shake my head at her, growl at her, cry for her and ... well ... love her. Intimacy.
The image of Frances Coroy is a screenshot of a copyrighted television program Six feet Under by HBO. FAIR USE of Sfu_s5_ep7.jpg‎ (54KB, MIME type: image/jpeg): jpg. This image is used for critical review and identification puposes. Image obtained from www.wikipedia.org.
What are my credentials for writing on this topic? I’m a bit of a tele girl - growing up in the seventies what else could I be? It’s like an old faithful dog - always there, waiting and ready to share the contents of its dinner bowl: drama, laughs and lashings of trash. For the purposes of this blog, I’m including films via DVD or on the big screen into the dinner bowl mix. Mind you, living out in rural Australia I don’t get to the flicks too often. Most of my celluloid comes via DVD – lets call them ‘divvy’s’
Buckle up your remotes, hold the couch steady and get ready to ride with … TELE-GIRL!
Ruth Fisher
Six Feet Under. I love it. Having just enjoyed and endured a divvy fest of the ENTIRE series I am quite the SFU head at the moment! What a journey. What amazing characterisation - life, death and everything in between.
Ruth (played by Frances Conroy) is the lynch-pin who doesn't hold it all together. How can she? A life of caring for others and not taking time to have a relationship with herself has left this woman polishing and re-polishing the dining room table looking at a dowdy reflection she no longer recognizes. Ruth blossoms and stumbles, loves and hurts and tries - very hard - to know herself and her children. "All I want is for us not to be strangers, I want intimacy!"
Frances Conroy as Ruth Fisher on Six Feet Under.
The image of Frances Coroy is a screenshot of a copyrighted television program Six feet Under by HBO. FAIR USE of Sfu_s5_ep7.jpg‎ (54KB, MIME type: image/jpeg): jpg. This image is used for critical review and identification puposes. Image obtained from www.wikipedia.org.
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