and while I'm on the subject of semiotics... we watched About a Boy . I'm not a big Hugh Grant fan, he plays the same guy in every movie, but we're working our way through the local library's dvd collection. The first time one of the main characters appears, played by Toni Collette, she's wearing a handknit hat (possibly that cat-eared one from the SnB book), sweater and bright scarf and her son's in a knit sweater jacket and earflap hat. Here's the son:
I think of her: "cool, I like this character". It quickly becomes apparent that the handknits are meant to telegraph to us that she's loony, goony, self-indulgent, a neo-hippy out of step with mainstream culture not to mention she's depressed. It gave us a good laugh. Hmmm. Should I be worried? I have the same haircut...if not the hairy sweater.
2 comments:
I see stripes, I think sporty. Definitely. I like that stripe.
And I think you're right on about what a handknitted sweater says about a movie character: look at Mrs. Weasley in Harry Potter--always with the slightly lumpy handknits. But there's always love in there, you know.
The child looks SO well cared for and Toni looks so chic. What can I say? Better living through handknits....xoxo Kay
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