by cindyrae77 » Thu Dec 22, 2016 5:23 am
I completely agree that Zara is a marvel, and NIBAC lets her strengths (and she has many of those) really shine. Zara is wonderful at pulling you inside what a character is thinking, and we know Vincent is thinking a LOT in NIBAC. (Words that never made it to the screen, unfortunately, as we had to rely on Vincent's expression and circumstances to 'tell us more.') Zara has a gift for perspective and empathy, and NIBAC shows off that talent well. She'll take you places you didn't realize you needed to go.
Everybody is just a little bit of a Beast, in NIBAC, (Catherine is leaving? How could she? Gould is a leering monster all his own, and Hughes is a whimpering one, having gotten a little chewed up by the 'monster' that is academia.) Hughes' beast is the cowering kind as we see that not all beasts are Ferocious, but they often just as destructive. (He'd sell Vincent to save his career, and realizes he can't only after Catherine's urging. Not Vincent's)
And of course, there's the Beast himself, Vincent. Strapped to a table, tossed in a cage, dehumanized and dying from it. - Until Cathy's rescue leaves two OTHER beasts dead on the floor. Our two main characters, Catherine and Vincent, get yanked right out of their 'comfort zones' and they are raw, in this one. (Cathy is weeping in her apartment, her stuff in boxes. Vincent isn't in his 'home,' and he isn't where he's safe. He's in a place right out of his nightmares, and dreaming of Catherine's departure, the worse nightmare, for him.)
Welcome, cross.roads!
Cindy
I completely agree that Zara is a marvel, and NIBAC lets her strengths (and she has [b]many[/b] of those) really shine. Zara is wonderful at pulling you inside what a character is thinking, and we know Vincent is thinking a LOT in NIBAC. (Words that never made it to the screen, unfortunately, as we had to rely on Vincent's expression and circumstances to 'tell us more.') Zara has a gift for perspective and empathy, and NIBAC shows off that talent well. She'll take you places you didn't realize you needed to go.
Everybody is just a little bit of a Beast, in NIBAC, (Catherine is leaving? How could she? Gould is a leering monster all his own, and Hughes is a whimpering one, having gotten a little chewed up by the 'monster' that is academia.) Hughes' beast is the cowering kind as we see that not all beasts are Ferocious, but they often just as destructive. (He'd sell Vincent to save his career, and realizes he can't only after Catherine's urging. Not Vincent's)
And of course, there's the Beast himself, Vincent. Strapped to a table, tossed in a cage, dehumanized and dying from it. - Until Cathy's rescue leaves two OTHER beasts dead on the floor. Our two main characters, Catherine and Vincent, get yanked right out of their 'comfort zones' and they are raw, in this one. (Cathy is weeping in her apartment, her stuff in boxes. Vincent isn't in his 'home,' and he isn't where he's safe. He's in a place right out of his nightmares, and dreaming of Catherine's departure, the worse nightmare, for him.)
Welcome, cross.roads!
Cindy