I always try to read Virgina Woolf but I can't, it's too much, it's so thick, but the hours, it's great.

But what is the meaning of The Hours?? I love the book and the movie so much but I try to find the meaning of it, like a concrete one and I don't find it. I'm sure that it's more than a writer writing a bood and a character reading it and the second character living it, right?

Mrs Dalloway is such an amazing book. I think that the most important thing when reading Virginia Woolf is to not stress every single word like you might with a book like The Hours. Mrs Dalloway is not really meant to be read that way, with the entire stream of consciousness thing.

I actually like the movie The Hours better than the book. It could be because I LOVE Mrs Dalloway so much though, I feel like it's kind of...I dunno. I just don't really like the book. The film resonates much better with Woolf, I think.

I think that a lot like Mrs Dalloway, time is a huge issue and/or theme of The Hours. The way that our pasts are constantly here in the present and the things we know (or don't know) that people may do in the future are hovering around us. There is no 'NOW' without what happened before and what will happen.

And that our histories and our present and future lives are inextricably intertwined with the lives of people that we don't really know at all (a point that The Hours, the film, depicts much more gracefully than a movie like Crash, I think).

I also don't think that any of the texts under discussion necessarily have a solid, inescapable meaning--there are so many ways to read the narratives that the number of possible meanings are almost endless.

I've never read The Hours, but I've seen the film.

Last time I watched it very shortly after reading Mrs Dalloway, and yeah that really made it into a whole other experience.

If you see certain themes reworked its even better, somehow. For me its all about how transferable it is.

I really enjoyed the book of The Hours, but the film was far too depressing.
Mrs Dalloway is the only Woolf I've managed to get through. Her writing style pisses the hell out of me.

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well I remember in the dvd documentary stepehn daldry said that we all live "in the hours", like it's all we have.

Also, you are right about Crash, wich is probably the worst movie I've ever seen, and it's such a forced movie, there's no realism in it whatsoever, none of those things could happen in real life the way they did in that movie. The Hours is fluid and connective like a stream of water, I think it's a perfect movie.