Away From Her is an English-Canadian film which debuted at the 2006 Toronto International Film Festival and also played in the Premier category at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival. The feature-length directorial debut of English-Canadian actress Sarah Polley, the film is based on Alice Munro's short story "The Bear Came Over the Mountain."
It was executive produced by Atom Egoyan and distributed by Lionsgate Films.The cast also includes Olympia Dukakis, Michael Murphy, Wendy Crewson, Alberta Watson, and Kristen Thomson.
The film stars Gordon Pinsent and Julie Christie as a couple whose marriage is tested when Christie's character begins to suffer from Alzheimer's and moves into a nursing home, where she transfers her affections, after loosing all memory of her husband, to another man, Aubrey, a wheel chair-bound mute who also is a patient at the nursing home.
This film starts out as we are observing Fiona [Julie Christie] and her retired husband Grant [Gorden Pinsent] have just returned home from a cross country skiing vacation and they are doing one of the many necessary everyday tasks of washing dishes. Grant hands his wife a frying pan and Fiona puts it away, right into the freezer. She is slowly slipping away into the beginning stages of Alzheimer's disease. After she gets lost near her own home she makes the decision that she will check herself into an institution.
To Grant's dismay Fiona is not allowed any visitors for the first 30 days. Unbearable as it is, Grant drops her off at the institution and then he returns 30 days later. At first everything seems to be okay with her until he discovers that his wife actually doesn't recognizes him.
This film is a generous and a deceptively simple portrait brought to life. During the first few months of her confinement she keeps on slipping further and further away, andyou can see that distant look in her eyes. Then one day when Grant is visiting her henotices that she is wearing a garish sweater, something that he knew she would never wear. At that point, Grant knows that his wife is gone forever. Not physically but still gone.
This was Sarah Polley first directorial debut and she did a amazing job with such a delicate subject matter. And I say Bravo to the cast and crew for turning in sucha superb performance. This film was a true ode to the realities of true love.
The film received vastly favorable reviews from critics and earned Julie Christie the 2007 Critics Choice Award as well and a best actress nomination for the 65th Golden Globe awards. This was in so many ways a true love story.
The Notebook Love Story
The Last verse in chapter (34) of the Old Testament (and verses 25-30) is talking about Shechem the son of Hamor loved Dinah the daughter of Jacob very much and wanted to marry her and was willing to do whatever Jacob commanded him! What was the result? The sons of Jacob, took their swords, and came upon the city boldly, and slew all the Hamor and Shechem and slew all the males and spoiled the city and took the sheep, the oxen, and the asses, and that which was in the city, and that which was in the field, And tool all their wealth, and all their little ones, and their wives took they captive, and spoiled even all that was in the house.
The Last verse in chapter (34) of the New Testament talks about all the sick in the streets that touched Jesus was healed.
The Last verse in chapter (34) of the Noble Quran talks about a promise and a fact. Allah promised to guide
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Old Testament:
Chapter 34 in the Old Testament is Genesis (34); it is composed of 31 verses.
The Last verse is that number 31
It says:
Genesis 34: 31 (King James Version)
31)" And they said, Should he deal with our sister as with an harlot?"
The verse (and verses 25-30) is talking about Shechem the son of Hamor loved Dinah the daughter of Jacob very much and wanted to marry her and was willing to do whatever Jacob commanded him! What was the result? The sons of Jacob, took their swords, and came upon the city boldly, and slew all the Hamor and Shechem and slew all the males and spoiled the city and took the sheep, the oxen, and the asses, and that which was in the city, and that which was in the field, And tool all their wealth, and all their little ones, and their wives took they captive, and spoiled even all that was in the house.
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New Testament
Chapter 34 in the New Testament is Mark 6; it is composed of 56 verses.
The Last verse is that number 56
It says:
Mark 6: 56 (King James Version)
56) " And whithersoever he entered, into villages, or cities, or country, they laid the sick in the streets, and besought him that they might touch if it were but the border of his garment: and as many as touched him were made whole."
The verse is talking about all the sick in the streets that touched Jesus was healed.
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The Noble Quran:
Chapter 34 in the Noble Quran is SABA (SABA); it is composed of 54 verses.
The Last verse is that number 54
It says:
SABA 34: 54
54) " and between them and their desires, is placed a barrier, as was done in the past with their partisans: for they were indeed in suspicious (disquieting) doubt."
The verse is talking about a barrier is set between the disbelievers and what they crave, in the way of faith just as was done with their counterparts, in [respect to] disbelief, formerly i.e., before them.
Indeed they used to be in hopeless doubt, causing them to have misgivings about that in which they now believe. They were in manifest doubt about the Creator of the heavens and the earth. And Allah knows best the all the hidden secrets.
Also, it is said that, when they die, the disbelievers crave to be believers to avoid the horrible fate that is waiting for them. But a barrier is set between them and what they crave. This meaning is not found in the Bible.
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Back to the main issue of my series of articles; this is my question to you smart readers: "Is the Quran quoted from the Bible?"
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