The Hours (part II)

I don't know if I should feel like I knew the ending to The Hours was coming, or not. I had assumed that the stories were connected in some way, but having the connection be the characters of Richard and his mother was not something that I had initially thought of. 

The parallels between the movie and the book were strong enough that I assumed there would be some sort of death; but I assumed that it would be the mother, who we later find out to be Richard's mother. While I didn't particularly like her character, I thought that she was really interesting. Her husband had gone to war (like Septimus) but, she seemed to be the one with mental health problems. I took her to be an interesting combination of Rezia and Septimus. One one hand, she displays serious signs of mental illness, and fleeting bisexual tendencies (like how there were vague hints at Septimus and Evans in the war). But, she also played the part of Rezia, by trying to be responsible for her family and not really fitting in with her community.