Things you can tell just by looking at her - really?

Guilherme lent me this film this weekend and I watched it right away on Friday evening. Amazing that I hadn't seen this film before - it's the second film I've seen that actually portrays for me the feeling of solitude women can feel. I have this theory that this feeling of solitude is so deep that only a woman can feel it. When I watched The Hours I felt that that was another film which also acurately portrayed the immensity of this feeling - the emptiness is often filled by so many superfluous and superficial things - we clutter up our lives in an attempt to escape from the emptiness in it. This feeling is so huge, so deep, so overwealwhing that I used to think that there was something missing in my life whenever I experienced this emptiness. I always thought that the fact I didn't have children accounted for this emptiness. Now that I have a son, I still have this feeling - so I've now reached the conclusion that it doesn't matter whether you are a daughter, woman, wife or mother - I think this feeling is something primitive, something which helps a woman re-focus her life and look at things from a new angle. A bit like the women in the film, searching for new ways of looking at things and seeing life as raw as it is (including the blind character). This sensation of there being nothing ahead does come and go every now and then. No use running away from it! I battle it out even wallow a bit in it. I have to breathe through it. It's a way of coming to terms and then facing everyone again the next day.....with a smile on your face.
Wonderful film - glad I saw it. It came at the right moment.