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Re: Thomas
There are several symbols for domestic violence within TOMMY, so I don't
think the details are terribly important, just the violence and the
resulting alienation.
keets
>From: "Mark R. Leaman" <mleaman@sccoast.net>
>To: "Joe Cozzarelli" <cozz@lucent.com>, <TheWho@igtc.com>
>Subject: Re: Thomas
>Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 10:55:04 -0500
>
>> One could argue that Tommy did not become deaf dumb and blind all at
once
>> but as a result of many events.
>
>Joe:
>
>If we were talking about real life, you'd be right, but the way (at
least)
>I read it is the actual event is a direct result of his parents
shouting:
>"You didn't hear it, you didn't see it, you won't say nothing to no
one,
>ever in your life..." In a story, especially as short as it would need
to
>be to fit into 80 minutes, events tend to be simplified (or at least as
>simplistic as possible) in order to be understood and move the story
along.
>Watching the movie tends to strengthen this impression for me. Tommy
saw
>his Dad leaving his room (therefore he could see), and follows. After
they
>kill the father, his mother and her lover scream at Tommy, and it
triggers
>his retreat from the world. It seems clear, however that is IMHO.
>If the story is ever made into a novel, or an extended
computer-generated
>DVD "movie" perhaps, we may find out that Townshend intended several
events
>to cause the retreat and this was only the trigger...the final straw.
But
>until then, we must work with what we have.
>
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