Word: storm
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...very beginning of The Ice Storm, Paul Hood (Tobey Maguire), a 16-year-old who attends boarding school in New York and reads Dostoevsky and the Fantastic Four, announces that families are like voids from which you can leave but must always return. At that moment, he's on his way back into the void, heading to his Connecticut home to spend Thanksgiving, 1973, with his family...
...storm, which literally freezes the world around the Hoods and the Carvers, serves as a kind of natural catalyst which brings all of their disappointments and repressed feelings to the surface, or at least forces them to break through their stiff behavioral code and emote. The Ice Storm, based on Rick Moody's 1994 novel, is a complex and, almost inevitably, flawed work of art, but one can't help being affected by nearly everything that transpires...
...issues, one wishes it were willing to offer some kind of moral resolution for its characters. By the end, a child has died and one of the main characters is finally, in this world of restrained emotions, reduced to tears. For a while it seems as if the ice storm--which the camera dwells upon in the second half of the film--will transform the lives of the Hood family. Instead, it leaves them at the very bottom of the familial void to which they must belong...
...Storm is still a significant achievement: movies rarely create a world this lifelike and treat the past with such devastating honesty. Lee deconstructs family relationships and social unease with as much ardor as he amplified the joyous heart of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility. One wishes, though, for some greater redemption to fully flesh out the lives of its characters. The ice storm in this film, as a natural symbol of change and the wiping away of sins, is like Noah's flood without the rainbow...
Yesterday's day-long showers were "slow to move because it was a deep storm that was well-developed 20-30,0000 ft. into the upper atmosphere," Pannuto said. But he added yesterday's rain is probably the "end of a series of deep low-pressure systems which develop into storms...