Wonkette Movie Night: Shirley Valentine
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'It sounds as if it could be a name. "Oh, hiya ClitORis. How are you?" Why not? Plenty of men walking round called Dick.'
One of my favorite movies that I've forgotten about. Also got to see the one-woman show in DC. Fabulous. Pauline Collins, the definitive Shirley, passed away last year. (
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/movies/pauline-collins-dead.html)

Who wants to go to Greece?
I say we join Shirley on her journey, a 42 year old woman in a loveless marriage and unsatisfying life where she spends time talking to the wall. But she still has dreams.
I'd like to drink a glass of wine in a country where the grape is grown. Sitting by the sea and just sipping wine and watching the sun go down.
When the opportunity to make that dream comes true, Shirley is conflicted. Her best friend has won a trip for two to Greece and she is taking Shirley with her. But as Shirley breaks the fourth wall and talks directly to us, she wonders if it is just too late for her to pursue that dream.
. . .
Earlier in the film Shirley says,
I have allowed myself to lead this little life, when inside me there was so much more. And it's all gone unused. And now it never will be. Why do we get all this life if we don't ever use it? Why do we get all these feelings and dreams and hopes if we don't ever use them?
. . .