Tuesday, February 13, 2007
Sara or Michael
Sara and Michael both were profoundly affected by Miranda's disappearance and were, in a way, distant rivals. Did your compassion for either outweigh the other? Sara, of course, actually knew Miranda quite well as a roommate and appeared to totally depend on her as family. But I was interested in Michael's predicament, because although his attachment to Miranda was based only on sight, it seemed that he came closest of anyone to finding the girls, yet his search ultimately brought home a different victim than the one he'd sought.
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Are we to assume, from the deleted scenes, that some kind of relationship developed between Michael and Irma?
I had no compassion for Michael, maybe because I didn't completely buy into Miranda's powerful magnetism. Sara, on the other hand, was genuinely heartbroken at losing someone she loved and idealized.
Similar to Erin, I thought Michael was sort of creepy, but I felt sorry for Sara.
There are deleted scenes between Michael-Irma and Bertie-Irma. I've read descriptions rather than watched them, but I think the Michael-Irma encounter would be his chance to ask her what happened, and perhaps Weir deleted it because that already was established between Mademoiselle de Portier and Irma.
A Bertie-Irma scene would have been interesting ... for him to actually encounter her as a human and not some sweet "hourglass figure" he saw from a distance.
The Sara-Miranda thing could have been really interesting, but there wasn't enough to make it credible. There could have been at least a couple of short scenes to establish why she liked her so much — like she was really funny or really smart or really awesome at needlepoint or SOMETHING.
And why couldn't Sara go on the picnic, exactly?
Still, I think her affection for Miranda stood apart from the others'. As did her giref.
Micahel saw the girls one time from afar, then after hearing about the tragedy, developed some sort of romanticized notion about Miranda. I found his relationship to her pretty unremarkable.
Sara was the one character who was truly interesting. At first it seemed that her life might have nothing beyond her projection into and dependance upon Miranda. But then we discover that she is prohibited from going on the picnic because she refuses to let herself be molded into the sort upper crust fluff that the school produces. She finds the poetry that she is required to memorize to be inferior to her own original work which she offers to recite instead. Although she is poor and without family, she doesn’t try to get “finished” in the hopes of marrying into money. She instead tries to become educated. Sadly, the school is the wrong place for that.
While the other girls simply disappear without trace and for no discoverable reason, Sara has a very particular demise. We know exactly when, how, and why she dies. And we see her body. She was a person, not an angel.
Bravo.
And we also know something about her past. She has a history, which distinguishes her from the other girls and adds to her realness.
She's also rather sexually determined. She's totally in love with Miranda. I bet she takes off her gloves all the time, without guilt.
I hadn’t considered that. We know nothing about the other girls except that they are the product of society families that are interested in having their daughters molded this way and can afford to have it done.
Would you say that the other girls are in love only with the idea of love? Is that the significance of Saint Valentine? It’s abstraction?
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