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A review by lilyevangeline
Gem of the Ocean by August Wilson
4.0
I read it. I was confused.
Then I saw it, and I was moved--perhaps more than that, convicted or charged or maybe pinned down. It's one thing to read a difficult book alone in your room. It's another thing to see it in a movie with a few other people. But it's something else entirely to witness it in a big dark room with a hundred other people, all watching live people act it in real time. These are people you have to make eye contact with afterwards, and it's like there's something behind the conversation now--uniting you. You know that they, like you, have witnessed the same things you have. And even if you don't know what you're going to do with, you'd know you'd like to watch and see what they do with it.
But my thoughts at the moment are muffled behind a general lack of sleep and tectonic shifts in my being. I shall give more thoughts, better thoughts, at a time when I can properly think them.
Then I saw it, and I was moved--perhaps more than that, convicted or charged or maybe pinned down. It's one thing to read a difficult book alone in your room. It's another thing to see it in a movie with a few other people. But it's something else entirely to witness it in a big dark room with a hundred other people, all watching live people act it in real time. These are people you have to make eye contact with afterwards, and it's like there's something behind the conversation now--uniting you. You know that they, like you, have witnessed the same things you have. And even if you don't know what you're going to do with, you'd know you'd like to watch and see what they do with it.
But my thoughts at the moment are muffled behind a general lack of sleep and tectonic shifts in my being. I shall give more thoughts, better thoughts, at a time when I can properly think them.