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Title: 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?'Release Year: 1966
Director: Edward Albee
Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, George Segal, Sandy Dennis.
Plot: A young married couple is invited by the wasted older couple conformed by professors George and Martha. What starts as a peaceful evening ends as a self-destructive and dangerous game night that they will never forget.
Review: In the same way that I owed a film to Katherine and Audrey Hepburn, I also had a debt with Mrs. Taylor, who gives here the performance of a lifetime.
Apparently, the film is just a reflection of two many years for a wasted marriage that explodes in an arranged dinner. But as the film goes by, you discover that George and Martha's minds are too complex to be arguing about lesser mind topics. The following thought you have involves the possibility that they can no longer bear each other, and they are having the fight that will finally break them up. What you surely don't expect is the revelation that they're just playing a game called; 'imagine you have had a child, create it to fill the empty life of our married couple so we can pretend we have it and we can be happy, but never talk about him with other people, or the hoax will be destroyed'.
As they play this dangerous game, they drag the young couple to their personal hell as they insult themselves, uncover other people secrets and even cuckold their respective couples (I think that in this last case, Martha went far beyond what was allowed in the game, but maybe it was all part of the game). Once they've ended only destruction is left and at the end George reveals that their son has died, causing that Martha accuses him commiting murder. Is that the truth? Yes and no. Yes, he's made the son disappear. No, he hasn't killed anybody because the son doesn't exist.
At the beginning I didn't know what game they were playing and was horrified that George could kill his son, but his supposed evil persona is indeed ending a lie that has gone too far, as Martha has talked about his son to strangers, breaking the spell. She is a complex creature (my favourite cast member, together with Sandy Dennis, both of them winning Academy Awards in their respective fields for their performances), apparently more powerful than her husband for her father's status, but beyond the insults and intellectual torture towards her husband, an afraid and volatile creature.
Strong and powerful. That's how Taylor's character is presented
What does the title mean then? Well, first you must know that Virginia Woolf was a 20th century writer known for her realistic works. When asked by her husband 'who's afraid of Virginia Woolf?', she's literally being asked who's afraid of living a real life, without fake delusions of a happier reality where she's a mother, to which she finally answers 'I do'.
Apparently, the film is just a reflection of two many years for a wasted marriage that explodes in an arranged dinner. But as the film goes by, you discover that George and Martha's minds are too complex to be arguing about lesser mind topics. The following thought you have involves the possibility that they can no longer bear each other, and they are having the fight that will finally break them up. What you surely don't expect is the revelation that they're just playing a game called; 'imagine you have had a child, create it to fill the empty life of our married couple so we can pretend we have it and we can be happy, but never talk about him with other people, or the hoax will be destroyed'.
George and Martha have a tumultuos relationship. In this particular scene I really believed that he was going to murder her
As they play this dangerous game, they drag the young couple to their personal hell as they insult themselves, uncover other people secrets and even cuckold their respective couples (I think that in this last case, Martha went far beyond what was allowed in the game, but maybe it was all part of the game). Once they've ended only destruction is left and at the end George reveals that their son has died, causing that Martha accuses him commiting murder. Is that the truth? Yes and no. Yes, he's made the son disappear. No, he hasn't killed anybody because the son doesn't exist.
It's not difficult to think that George has killed his own son, as he's shown as an agressive character through the entire movie
At the beginning I didn't know what game they were playing and was horrified that George could kill his son, but his supposed evil persona is indeed ending a lie that has gone too far, as Martha has talked about his son to strangers, breaking the spell. She is a complex creature (my favourite cast member, together with Sandy Dennis, both of them winning Academy Awards in their respective fields for their performances), apparently more powerful than her husband for her father's status, but beyond the insults and intellectual torture towards her husband, an afraid and volatile creature.
Strong and powerful. That's how Taylor's character is presented
What does the title mean then? Well, first you must know that Virginia Woolf was a 20th century writer known for her realistic works. When asked by her husband 'who's afraid of Virginia Woolf?', she's literally being asked who's afraid of living a real life, without fake delusions of a happier reality where she's a mother, to which she finally answers 'I do'.
Strong in the outside, but deep down she is a tortured creature, prisoner of a life that she can't have
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