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| Character | Marion's Father | |
|---|---|---|
| Gender | Male | |
| Age Range(s) | Senior (>50) | |
| Type of monologue / Character is | Depressed, Lamenting, Frustrated, Reminiscing life story/Telling a story, Pondering/Pensive | |
| Type | Dramatic | |
| Year | 1988 | |
| Period | 20th Century | |
| Genre | Drama | |
| Description | Marion's father tells a psychologist the regrets of his life | |
| Details | 48 minutes into the film | |
Summary
Marion Post (Gena Rowlands) is an accomplished philosophy professor who decides to take some time off to write a novel. She rents an apartment that is next door to a psychiatrist's office. As the walls are very thin, she can hear everything they say and soon becomes drawn to the stories that one of the patients, Hope (Mia Farrow), tells her psychiatrist.
Those stories make her remember her past and her issues with her parents, family and friends. In a sort of dream sequence, she walks into the psychologist's studio, only to see the woman leave without even acknowledging her and then her old father walks in, sits down and tells the psychologist the regrets of his life....
Short monologue, about a minute.
Those stories make her remember her past and her issues with her parents, family and friends. In a sort of dream sequence, she walks into the psychologist's studio, only to see the woman leave without even acknowledging her and then her old father walks in, sits down and tells the psychologist the regrets of his life....
Short monologue, about a minute.
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| MARION'S FATHER: "Now that my life is drawing to a close, I have only regrets. Regrets that the woman that I shared my life with is not the one that I loved the most deeply. Regrets that there is no love between my son and myself. That is my fault. Regrets that perhaps I have been too severe with my daughter. Too demanding that I haven't given her enough feeling...I was so unhappy myself so caught up in those stupid studies of historical figures. Even though I have achieved some eminence in my field, I have asked too little of myself..." |
