"Adore" - a sensitive exploration of relationships
I have always been intrigued by relationships. In a society that is so censorious of any attachment that is even slightly deviant from established norms, it is difficult to give vent to the throes of passion and yearning that could naturally arise in ones heart. Is age an impediment, will the formal structure of relationships prove to be a insurmountable barrier, Will we be transgressing the unwritten laws of ethical behavior by succumbing to the raw dictates of biological necessity.... Will Society label a relationship a "taboo", if it does not understand the nature and quality of the attraction?. These are some of the disturbing questions that "Adore" - the movie explores with a great deal of sensitivity.
Shot in the sun dappled beaches of New south Wales , Australia - the story revolves around two childhood friends who literally grow up in the lap of the blue ocean waves, drenched in its ebbs and flows; blossoming into two beautiful mature ladies; mothers of two fine looking young adolescents boys - Adonises both of them; sculpted and tanned in the ravishing heat and splashing waters, with close physical proximity to each other. The unexpected happens... the boys fall in love with each other's mothers. Their solitary lives find a fulfilling physical and emotional resonance in this perilous relationship. In the vast openness of the ocean, these deep emotional undercurrents are unnamed. They thrive on its virginal sublimity without the need for definition or characterization; the rawness of the magnetic pull between the bodies overrides any nomenclature .... As the story progresses, the boys mature and grow out of this vain infatuation. Life drags them to newer spheres of experience, yet they retain the sweet taste of their first forbidden relationship that signified the transition
from boyhood to Man....All that is left in the end, for the four of them, is a lonely ache in their hearts, a feeling of deprived love and an emptiness that is forced by the formal structure of society...
The film is loosely based on a work by Nobel laureate Dorris Lessing. and bought to life on screen by Naomi watts and Robin wright - two fine, talented ladies at the height of their artistic capabilities. The beaches of Australia do not need any special effects to make them look beautiful. The crystal blue waters, the transience of its lapping waves, the depth of the ocean and its detachment - provide a poignant backdrop to the emotional and physical conflict in the human heart.
I would not want recommend this movie to all my readers. It may affect your sensibilities and moral balance. Watch it only if you are open to the deep abysses of human desires, and realize how thin and weak are the psychological defenses that encapsulate and tame the instinctual urges of Man...
God bless...
Shot in the sun dappled beaches of New south Wales , Australia - the story revolves around two childhood friends who literally grow up in the lap of the blue ocean waves, drenched in its ebbs and flows; blossoming into two beautiful mature ladies; mothers of two fine looking young adolescents boys - Adonises both of them; sculpted and tanned in the ravishing heat and splashing waters, with close physical proximity to each other. The unexpected happens... the boys fall in love with each other's mothers. Their solitary lives find a fulfilling physical and emotional resonance in this perilous relationship. In the vast openness of the ocean, these deep emotional undercurrents are unnamed. They thrive on its virginal sublimity without the need for definition or characterization; the rawness of the magnetic pull between the bodies overrides any nomenclature .... As the story progresses, the boys mature and grow out of this vain infatuation. Life drags them to newer spheres of experience, yet they retain the sweet taste of their first forbidden relationship that signified the transition
The film is loosely based on a work by Nobel laureate Dorris Lessing. and bought to life on screen by Naomi watts and Robin wright - two fine, talented ladies at the height of their artistic capabilities. The beaches of Australia do not need any special effects to make them look beautiful. The crystal blue waters, the transience of its lapping waves, the depth of the ocean and its detachment - provide a poignant backdrop to the emotional and physical conflict in the human heart.
I would not want recommend this movie to all my readers. It may affect your sensibilities and moral balance. Watch it only if you are open to the deep abysses of human desires, and realize how thin and weak are the psychological defenses that encapsulate and tame the instinctual urges of Man...
God bless...
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