The Moving Message From Glenn Close In Honor Of His Mother
” When she was 80, my mother told me that she felt like she had accomplished nothing in life . ” This is one of the touching and emphatic phrases Glenn Close shared with audiences last January when she won her Golden Globe for The Wife. She developed a deep reflection on motherhood and the need to realize personal dreams in her speech.
We could say that this actress is one of the most admired by the general public today. She is not a pre-model actress. Her roles, the women she embodied either. This is a lady with a thousand faces.
For example, she generated a mixture of absolute terror and fascination in her role in Fatal Liaison . This urge to kill Michael Douglas, a married man with whom she had a relationship and who later left her, is already part of cinema history.
She was also unforgettable in The World According to Garp , one of her first roles in which she played a feminist with strong convictions. We also adored her in Albert Nobbs, when she had to disguise herself as a man. His roles as Cruella de Vil or in The Stone Boy (1984) or The Best (1985) are also memorable.
Dramas, comedies, adventures, science fiction or thrillers, Glenn Close assumes any character with the passion and excellence of great artists. She approaches each of her roles with emotion, from this privileged corner which inhabits only the great actresses. She also stands out for her messages, such as the one she sent us on the night of January 7.
The Wife , the woman hidden behind the man
The Wife begins by introducing us to a character vi f, with enormous potential. The character of Glenn Close in her youth is the portrayal of an ambitious and talented woman who lives on the East Coast and aspires to be a writer.
It is then that the conflict, the contradiction and the beginnings of a personal catastrophe appear. She falls in love with a young man who also wants to become a writer. She sincerely gives him her opinion when he shows her his first manuscript: it’s not good.
His reaction is then violent and unexpected. Unlike what often happens in Glenn Close movies, no one here is looking to assassinate him.
It will nevertheless continually ignored e , belittled e and underestimated e. Not only for her husband, but also for the company itself. Joan Castleman gradually becomes the shadow of her husband, this discreet person who walks behind the illustrious writer Joseph Castleman (with Jonathan Pryce).
Nobody pronounces their name well. Moreover , he n ‘ is not even necessary to do : it is simply “the good wife.” A secondary character alongside a nominee for the Nobel Prize in Literature …
Glenn Close and his feminist discourse
The making of the film The Wife lasted approximately 14 years. However, it only took a few minutes to Glenn Close for bringing the public and everyone to connect with the meaning of his Personalia e and also with his personal history.
After thanking whom it may concern, she paid tribute to her mother when she received the Golden Globe. His words were:
Claim spaces
Glenn Close’s speech gives us other points to think about. We often forget that mothers are more than just a term or a label. Their condition of woman, of individual aspiring to realize her own dreams, is always present. Latent, but passed over in silence.
- Somehow we forget that they are more than bodies, skin and a heart that nourishes and offers affection. Mothers, wives, companions, etc., are above all people who continue to claim their space for development, creation, autonomy and personal fulfillment
- Mothers have the right, like anyone else, to continue to grow beyond their own families. There is no doubt that realizing this and achieving it is a real challenge. But as Glenn Close points out in his speech, it is our duty to strive for our own dreams and make them come true.
Nothing can indeed be more sad than a rriver at a stage of our lives and feel that we have accomplished nothing. To be, outside the family circle, invisible beings, specters of hidden and wasted potentials or silenced voices like Joan Castleman herself, the character of The Wife.
So let’s think about it. Let’s work on our goals. Whether we are men or women, we try to achieve the dreamed goals to have the feeling, when the day comes, that our life has been worth it.
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