By: Tom B.

Tom B. — Thu, 17 Aug 2023 18:51:48 +0000

I appreciate your reference to the significance of the call of the cuckoo bird in several scenes. I’ve seen “The Quiet Girl” several times and hadn’t picked up on the idea of Cait being the cuckoo’s egg laid temporarily in the Kinsella’s nest for the summer. It’s easy to write off the father, Dan, as the villain of the story, yet he comes across as a more complex figure than that. He calls Cait “The Wanderer”, but he himself is a bit of a wanderer and seems to want to avoid the family home as much as Cait does. When Cait returns home at the end of the film, he gives his daughter more of a greeting than her mother does. Also, we never see Dan lose his temper with Cait and speak sharply to her in the way that Sean does on two occasions. All in all, it’s a timeless, beautiful film that has been in my thoughts ever since I first saw it here in Kingston, Ontario back in March of this year; and I’ve seen it several times since then.

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By: Tom B.