
Saint Rose: Review. By Hope Moore.
Saint Rose hits the ball out of the park for anyone who has endured abuse or has known of anyone who has endured abuse. The tone and suspense of Rose’s response to her husband’s demands and disapproval to everything she does is gut wrenching.
The house doesn’t appear to be a home at all. It’s too immaculate. No mistakes. No color. No character. No life. Only coldness and emptiness. The air even seems shallow.
It’s interesting to see how her bathroom is her safe haven from her husband’s abuse, and is the one place where she copes. It appears as if she is preparing herself to continue to pretend to everyone that she is happy and has everything under control. Through her drinking, smoking and preparing her lines to sound as if she’s ok to others, her bathroom is her escape. The scene where she is reading a Turkey’s Turquoise Coast catalogue deepens her sense of hopelessness.
I thought Rose’s relationship with her maid was quite interesting, because she is aware of what Rose is enduring. It seems that the two women has trust and honesty between one another. The maid’s willingness to drink in private shows that she too understands the extreme emotional abuse that Rose’s husband displays and that it effects everyone around him..
The last scene was the eye opener for me. It shows her raw desperation to escape her abuse by greeting her guest in drenched hair and blouse. Previously it shows her heart throbbing body language, awareness, and contemplation when she stares at her running faucet. This scene is powerful because she is making a statement that she has had enough. In my opinion, she’s making a statement to her guest that everything is not what it appears to be and she’s making a statement to her husband that she has the courage now to intentionally make you look poorly and powerless to others. Just as he treats her extremely poorly. She is regaining her power and self worth.
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