| re: AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE's final performance -- Loved it! | |
| Posted by: DistantDrumming 12:40 am EDT 06/25/24 | |
| In reply to: re: AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE's final performance -- Loved it! - Ann 10:59 am EDT 06/24/24 | |
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| Yes, the America lines earned a very hearty and knowing laugh at the final performance, too. And, smart of Jeremy Strong (and, presumably, Sam Gold) not to play those readings too broadly. The laughs would come, they didn't need to be coaxed. As for the choice to kill the wife off, as I said, I had zero familiarity with the work prior to this, so I went in totally green. I can't say if I would have felt this way had I seen a prior iteration, but, under those circumstances, I like Herzog's choice to do this. I think making the Dr. a widower made him more isolated and even easier for the townspeople to villainize him, but it also didn't force our sympathy for him -- he never felt like "the pathetic, odd widower doctor" to me. I think the cast and creative team did a lovely job showing that the Dr. still had a loving (and knowing) relationship with his daughter and the genuinely warm and hospitable way in which he treated his fellow townspeople showed that he still had the ability to connect deeply with others -- emotionally and intellectually. It made the ferocity with which they turned on him even more devastating. And, the final, pleading hope in his voice at the very end all the more moving. |
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