This past weekend my partner and I had rented The World According to Garp, a movie based on John Irving's novel by the same name, starring Robin Williams, Glenn Close and John Lithgow. Just seeing Robin Williams and John Lithgow in a film together makes one expect laughter aplenty, but both, despite their comedic accomplishments, are strong enough actors to play serious roles. This movie is an interesting blend of serious and light subject matter.
One thing I found quite funny--though I wish it were that easy--was the way Garp becomes a writer. Here's how: leave whatever you are currently doing and begin writing so you can impress the girl who wants to marry a writer; move to New York City to pursue writing full time, because that's where you live if you want to be a writer; get published by mommy's publisher--she also decides on a whim to move to NYC to become a writer; go back to marry the girl who wanted to marry a writer because you now are a writer; buy a nice big home together and have a family. Of course much else happens, but the trajectory was funny, because simplistic.
I guess the Canadian equivalent would be for me to leave my office job in Guelph and move to Toronto. Of course I already have the girl, and she, though supportive of my writing, hasn't stipulated that her partner need be a writer. O, I'd be in T.O. in a blink if I knew it would be that easy! I just love that city!
