Life Is Too Short–So Kiss Slowly,
Laugh Insanely, Love Truly,
And Live With Passion.
Andy Vogt
If there is truth in Oscar Wilde’s line that men want to be a woman’s first love while women want to be a man’s last romance, where does this leave a woman who discovers she isn’t? I laughed and cried through If I Were You, a film starring Marcia Gay Harding as a long married woman who serendipitously saves the life and career of her husband’s mistress. They agree to do what the other says (including pretending that she, too, is having an affair) and they end up starring in a Shakespearean production with Marcia as King Lear and the mistress as the King’s Fool.
Lear’s Fool is a blend of wit, shrewd innocence, wicked glee, truthful humor and devotion. It represents our freedom to challenge assumptions we hold dear about justice, the nature of humanity, and the rules of society. Lear blames everyone and everything for his sorrow (except himself, of course) until he is caught in the middle of a storm stripped and alone. “Is man no more than this?,” he asks over and over, “Who am I?” then for the first time, places his Fool’s comfort before his own. Losing everything we hold dear and losing our wits clear the fog of petty pretenses, false virtue, ambition and indifference to what truly matters.
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© Sharon Birke
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