It has been argued that Francois Legault and the Coalition d'Avenir Quebec represents the 'normalization' of the province's politics; i.e. Quebec is no longer a socio-cultural 'solitude' obsessed with obscure debates about sovereignty but is now just a province full of federalist voters apoplectic about taxes and immigration just like the rest of North America.
The film opens with a purported line from the Book of Bushido - the source of the Japanese warrior class's knowledge: "There is no greater solitude than that of the samurai, unless perhaps it be that of the tiger in the jungle".
The dazzling breadth of his playing feels warranted, because for him a solo piano record is no occasion for solitude.
Over more than half a century, Horton Foote has spun a series of hypnotically heartbroken tales for the stage about the residents of Harrison, a small town where knowing everbody who lives there -- and all their private soap operas -- is no guarantee against solitude.
For more than half a century, Mr. Foote, now 88, has spun a series of hypnotically heartbroken tales for the stage about the residents of Harrison, a small town where knowing everybody who lives there -- and all their secret soap operas -- is no guarantee against solitude.
Dylan tries to make contact, but it becomes clear that these two are living in separate worlds where there is no fortress of solitude.
Family, in Mr. Foote's world, is no bulwark against the solitude in which lives end, nor is home a fortress.
In all the earth there is no place dedicated to solitude.
There is no more horror in the solitude.
