Lucy Honeychurch is the principal character on
this movie, she traveled to Italy with her cousin Charlotte which both of them
belong to the rich upper class. Lucy through the entire movie battles her
old-fashion Victorian values versus her more liberal ones. This movie starts at
Florence, Italy and it is based on a novel first publish in 1908. A reason of
why the movie may have began at Florence, could be that this place is very rich
and famous in art and culture. A mere observation of what principally made Lucy
change her mind about her values was that she expected Italy to be like
England, since in Italy you can see that social classes seem to mix. This could
be the best example of the advantages from being a tourist. For Lucy, this
whole trip help her open her eyes and see new things, as for example her
experience with the Emersons, which help her notice that she can find beauty in
the things that she found inappropriate. We can see that Lucy is a traveler
person, and we can see this when for example she realized that she fell in love
for George but at the same time she wants to stay single to travel to Greece
with Miss Alans, an aged woman she met in Florence. All these tourist examples
can’t be compared with the examples that Jamaica Kincaid mention at A Small Place, mainly because Kincaid
describe tourist as ugly and here on the movie are describe as being amazed at
things but in a real way and not for example wishing to live their rest of the
life on that “paradise”.
Maybe you can write about (revise/add to this) the comment related to travelers and tourists so that you can integrate your comment with the movie, i.e., state what the movie said about travelers and tourist and then you define both concepts. I like how you integrated the Kincaid tourists idea. (Oh, don't forget to include the information on the sidebar - name, class, section, year/semester, professor.)
ReplyDeleteI couldn't find your "tourist for a day" activity, Antonio.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you about the comparison you did with this movie and the examples that Jamaica Kincaid mentions in A small place... In both, the movie and the essay tourists are very differently described or perceived.
ReplyDeleteI hadn't thought about the idea that in Italy classes mix and that there was beauty in that. I think that made Lucy really "open up" more than she was willing to and really embrace life in a new perspective. I think she was already a "traveler" in a sort of way because she was always looking for something new and different to uncover. I also liked how you compared and contrast this to A Small Place.
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