A million years ago there was a film, The Four Seasons, starring Alan Alda, Carol Burnett, Jack Weston, Sandy Dennis, Rita Moreno, Len Carriou, and Beth Armstrong--four couples who were best friends, had kids the same age, and did things together--rent a beachside cottage, crew a rented sailboat for the summer, spend the holidays in a cabin at a ski resort.
Dennis was an amateur photographer building a portfolio. She took still lives of vegetables. The others were taken aback at the intense focus she put toward those photos, and used them to illustrate how boring her life had become, that she was so overfocused on static vegetables. Carriou, playing her husband, divorced her and took up with Armstrong's character, ten years younger, and the movie was about how the other three couples accepted Armstrong's character into the fold. I always wondered if any of them maintained ties with Dennis' character or just let her fade into immobility along with her photos.
Anyhow, sometimes when I fear I'm overfocused on tea trays, I wonder if I'm going to take up vegetable still lives next.
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Date: 2016-08-12 08:46 pm (UTC)Dennis was an amateur photographer building a portfolio. She took still lives of vegetables. The others were taken aback at the intense focus she put toward those photos, and used them to illustrate how boring her life had become, that she was so overfocused on static vegetables. Carriou, playing her husband, divorced her and took up with Armstrong's character, ten years younger, and the movie was about how the other three couples accepted Armstrong's character into the fold. I always wondered if any of them maintained ties with Dennis' character or just let her fade into immobility along with her photos.
Anyhow, sometimes when I fear I'm overfocused on tea trays, I wonder if I'm going to take up vegetable still lives next.