Word: bobbyã
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...rest of the cast is also outstanding, with special praise deserved by Hunter Foster for an unexpectedly sharp portrayal of Bobby, the male ingenue-cum-revolutionary, and the Broadway veteran Ken Jennings who is so good he deserves more stage time in the dual role of Bobby??s father and Hot Blades Harry...
...wants, the past can come kicking the door down. And you never know where it’s going to take you. All you can do is hope it’s somewhere you want to go,” says middle-aged photographer Robert “Bobby?? Garfield as he ruminates about his past...
Hearts of Atlantis opens with a slightly confused image: Through the lens of Bobby??s camera, we see a large, multi-faced crystal sphere. The faces of the crystal bend the light that passes through them in dazzling ways, distorting our view of reality and of the photograph lying behind the sphere. Through the lit orb, perception is filtered and altered, and Hearts in Atlantis, more than anything else is a story of filtered and altered perception...
...Braughtigan, moves in upstairs and offers to pay Bobby a dollar a week to read the newspaper aloud to him and to watch for the “lowmen.” With visions of his bike in mind, he agrees, and slowly, Braughtigan begins to change Bobby??s perception of reality...
...motifs to indicate the distance between object, observer and the accuracy of perception. Bobby drifts into his past while gazing through a glass windowpane in his childhood bedroom. On the other hand, photographs, although the camera itself provides distance for Bobby, seem to indicate an exactitude of perception. Bobby??s clearest image of his father comes in the form of a happened-upon photograph...