Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!bionet!hayes.ims.alaska.edu!gateway!dont-send-mail-to-path-lines From: jburka@SILVER.UCS.INDIANA.EDU (Jeff Burka) Newsgroups: rec.music.gaffa Subject: Re: "This Woman's Work" video Message-ID: <9104120250.AA15752@EDDIE.MIT.EDU> Date: 12 Apr 91 02:50:49 GMT References: Sender: Love-Hounds-request@ims.alaska.edu Organization: Indiana University, Bloomington Lines: 32 Approved: Love-Hounds@hayes.ims.alaska.edu Judi, our most proflific new poster, writes: [wrt whether TWW's video is from the man or woman's point of view] Um. I dunno. I've only watched it two or three times (one of the big problems of not having my own VCR). To me, it's from the man's point of view--we experience the man's anguish at watching his loved one collapse, and then trying to cope with the waiting-room experience. Perhaps there's a hint of "Hello Earth" in here--he's just "floating" there in the waiting room, then he relives the experience that brought him to that point. But I digress... >When I consider these lines as one segment by themselves, sometimes I get >the feeling that she's talking about childbirth. Does anyone else see this? Bingo! "This Woman's Work" actually dates from 1988 (or is it '87? '88 I think). It was written for the soundtrack of the John Hughes movie _She's Having A Baby_ (Kevin Bacon and I don't recall whom else). The song was written for...you guessed it!...the sequence during which Kevin Bacon is in the waiting room and his wife is in the delivery room--he's reliving their life together through a series of flashbacks, scared to death that something will happen to her during childbirth. To be honest, I like the sequence in the film a *lot* better than the video. It's stunning. Sigh. Looks like it's time to pull out TSW and put on "This Woman's Work." Jeff (signing off before he starts bawling) -- |Jeffrey C. Burka |"I've lost my way through this world of | |jburka@silver.ucs.indiana.edu | profanities/I thrive on the wind and | |jburka@amber.ucs.indiana.edu | the rain and the cold." --Happy Rhodes|