Suddenly Last Summer
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The action opens at the Lion's View State Asylum where we watch Dr. John Cukrowicz ([[Montgomery Clift]]) perform a lobotomy. The wealthy widow Violet Venables requests he come to see her, as she is very interested in his work, and so next we meet her played by [[Katherine Hepburn]]. Violet tells John that not only is she a widow but her only child Sebastian who was a poet, has recently died. | The action opens at the Lion's View State Asylum where we watch Dr. John Cukrowicz ([[Montgomery Clift]]) perform a lobotomy. The wealthy widow Violet Venables requests he come to see her, as she is very interested in his work, and so next we meet her played by [[Katherine Hepburn]]. Violet tells John that not only is she a widow but her only child Sebastian who was a poet, has recently died. | ||
| − | Violet speaks about Sebastian constantly, his favorite color was white, he was a poet, he died young, he had this or that view of this or that. Now we learn that there is an insane niece who evidently is raving horrible things about Sebastian at a nunnery.<blockquote>"Sebastian saw the face of God"</blockquote> | + | Violet speaks about Sebastian constantly, his favorite color was white, he was a poet, he died young, he had this or that view of this or that. Now we learn that there is an insane niece who evidently is raving horrible things about Sebastian at a nunnery. Violet then relates a graphic story of how she and Sebastian witnessed the annual hatching of the sea turtle eggs and their race to the sea while thousands of flesh-eating birds devour them before they can.<blockquote>"Sebastian saw the face of God"</blockquote><blockquote>"We're all of us trapped by this devouring creation"</blockquote> |
