Word: orlandos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...many 9s do you pass when you start at 1 and count to 100? Eleven hundred men and women possessing a great facility for answering this and similar questions are spending a hot July weekend at Orlando's Peabody Hotel. They have come for the annual gathering of the Mensa society, a group that admits any applicant who has an intelligence-test score in the top 2% of the population; the question above is from a Mensa test, but SAT scores or any standard I.Q. test score will do. Mensa says it provides a "stimulating intellectual and social environment...
...Orlando's experience with love and rejection return to haunt him after he changes into a woman and the law never seems to be happy with Lady Orlando owning property. The most intriguing aspect is that Orlando never has the "male" virtues while he is a man--he is out-drunk by the Eastern ruler and finds war nothing to his liking...
...same sense, Orlando is never fully possessed of the "female" virtues while a woman; she is independent and the only lover she has tells her truthfully that she does not want a husband, but a lover. Orlando can only be happy, it seems, when in the modern world comfortably looking androgynous while riding a motorcycle with her daughter, played by Swinton's real-life daughter...
...Orlando's adventures aren't those of a feminine man nor those of a masculine woman they are simply those of a person trying to be who she is, a being who in many ways transcends gender roles and sex itself. In this sense the modern day ending is an appropriate one, despite the obvious difference from what Woolf knew as modern. Potter implies that our era is the most free of all those lived in by Orlando but leaves us with no proof but that gained from the exquisite imagery and inherent Zaniness of the movie...
...gamble proves successful because as the film progresses, the colors in the scenes move away from black and white to vivid color and Orlando's questioning looks at the audience become less frequent as events make more sense to her. Orlando then stops being the oddball in her surroundings and comes to be a person not unlike the one sitting next to you in the theater...