Dale's Notes on Last Holiday (through the lens of 9 the Mediator)
The title even makes me think of how 9s frequently have a slow speed bc they think there is no end to rush for. No end to their lives, so why rush?
This movie may show us: What happens when a 9 realizes they have a shelf life? That life is not just an unfolding “we” but there is a “me” experiencing it all in time.
Listen to lyrics on opening song, they are perfect for this film:
“If you think that time will change your ways, don’t wait to long… take a chance…”
Ms Georgia Bird dresses frumpy, studies cooking on tv and gives the food to a neighbor boy and his grandpa. She eats Lean Cuisine. She keeps a book of Possibilities: relationship, recipes, travel. She seemed to embody a lot of what Nines enact: I’ll just blend in, I may not matter, I’ll just fill in the blanks.
Lots of Self-Preservation Instinct here: clothing store, home, food. Funny: Georgia gets scolded for feeding her customers during the display time.
After an accident she finds out she has a shelf life— 3 weeks. Nines generally feel that they live in a COLD WORLD, that is why they try to be warm, or lukewarm, whoever Luke is… The cold world of HR and Benefits is of no help for treatment. Crying she says “You wait and you wait for something big to happen, and then you find out you gonna die…” and she views all her lost potentials. But it’s the FIRE IN THE BELLY that gets her into the “me” and her “own life”…
She calls her sister, with whom she clearly had a 9-like relationship of filling in the blank and being a door mat.
Then: The 9 Wakes Up! Often they do so in anger and conflict. In front of Mr Adamian from the store. She raises her force and insists with an 8 Force and a 1 Righteousness (powerful wings!). When a 9 wakes up, they are frequently big/universal/angry/demanding bc **their expression of will is frequently unpracticed** … Anger is a sign 9s are waking up and risking their own agenda. Her speaking the truth on the airplane crowdedness was a 9 blow up: 8 Justice 1 Righteousness and she goes into comfort class (comfort, Nine!).
She begins to live her life and her own Will. She shops and focuses on Identity (something new, Type 3 Me/Identity is often avoided by 9s for too long)…
Here’s the triangle of 3-6-9: Timothy Hutton’s Cragin character is the 3 Will/Competition/me/Identity tension w Georgia’s 9 We/NonImportance/Ease. Georgia advocates for the workers in the spa, like a connection to 6 The Loyalist.
Her betting on Black 17 in Roulette included Risks (Type 6) and Wins (Type 3) in a game without effort or much strategy— and she does well—- and people follow her, even thru thru the several sagas thru changing numbers and then returning to the first (Saga is the speech style assigned to 9s— their all-encompassing world view contributes to it along with a natural sense of not wanting to be controlled or rushed).
Georgia went from being **invisible Nine** to being the center of everyone’s attention in the movie— all bc a timeline was given to her and she risked (6) was to get in her own life and be someone (3).
Watch for the metaphor on Turnips in the kitchen with Chef Didier——!!!! Chef Didier remarks on her zest for life, food, the senses— SP 9 comfort/ SP 8 lust for life. All the while there is an uprightness and decorum that likely comes from her connection to the 1 Wing. She doesn’t mince words, but she is direct and truthful without being demeaning. She had a 9s way of telling folks a direct truth but with kindness and decorum— the way she spoke too Giancarlo Esposito’s character The Senator.
Georgia Bird: “You keep your head down, and hustle and hustle.. And you wake up and ask How Did I Even Get Here?” I always think of Nines with the Talking Heads song Stop Making Sense: “This is not my beautiful house, this is not my beautiful wife, hey… how did I get here? Letting the days go by….”
Is it my Four "assigning meaning to everything" or is there a clear Nine Redemption to be enjoyed here? In the theme of joining this light movie with the heavier Banshees of Inishirin— I wonder are both movies pointing to this:
The Life of Something (or of Someone) not is really fully felt until one knows that it requires risk and has an end.
We saw it last year with The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, and years ago in Paterson and in Carol Shields' The Stone Diaries.
The title even makes me think of how 9s frequently have a slow speed bc they think there is no end to rush for. No end to their lives, so why rush?
This movie may show us: What happens when a 9 realizes they have a shelf life? That life is not just an unfolding “we” but there is a “me” experiencing it all in time.
Listen to lyrics on opening song, they are perfect for this film:
“If you think that time will change your ways, don’t wait to long… take a chance…”
Ms Georgia Bird dresses frumpy, studies cooking on tv and gives the food to a neighbor boy and his grandpa. She eats Lean Cuisine. She keeps a book of Possibilities: relationship, recipes, travel. She seemed to embody a lot of what Nines enact: I’ll just blend in, I may not matter, I’ll just fill in the blanks.
Lots of Self-Preservation Instinct here: clothing store, home, food. Funny: Georgia gets scolded for feeding her customers during the display time.
After an accident she finds out she has a shelf life— 3 weeks. Nines generally feel that they live in a COLD WORLD, that is why they try to be warm, or lukewarm, whoever Luke is… The cold world of HR and Benefits is of no help for treatment. Crying she says “You wait and you wait for something big to happen, and then you find out you gonna die…” and she views all her lost potentials. But it’s the FIRE IN THE BELLY that gets her into the “me” and her “own life”…
She calls her sister, with whom she clearly had a 9-like relationship of filling in the blank and being a door mat.
Then: The 9 Wakes Up! Often they do so in anger and conflict. In front of Mr Adamian from the store. She raises her force and insists with an 8 Force and a 1 Righteousness (powerful wings!). When a 9 wakes up, they are frequently big/universal/angry/demanding bc **their expression of will is frequently unpracticed** … Anger is a sign 9s are waking up and risking their own agenda. Her speaking the truth on the airplane crowdedness was a 9 blow up: 8 Justice 1 Righteousness and she goes into comfort class (comfort, Nine!).
She begins to live her life and her own Will. She shops and focuses on Identity (something new, Type 3 Me/Identity is often avoided by 9s for too long)…
Here’s the triangle of 3-6-9: Timothy Hutton’s Cragin character is the 3 Will/Competition/me/Identity tension w Georgia’s 9 We/NonImportance/Ease. Georgia advocates for the workers in the spa, like a connection to 6 The Loyalist.
Her betting on Black 17 in Roulette included Risks (Type 6) and Wins (Type 3) in a game without effort or much strategy— and she does well—- and people follow her, even thru thru the several sagas thru changing numbers and then returning to the first (Saga is the speech style assigned to 9s— their all-encompassing world view contributes to it along with a natural sense of not wanting to be controlled or rushed).
Georgia went from being **invisible Nine** to being the center of everyone’s attention in the movie— all bc a timeline was given to her and she risked (6) was to get in her own life and be someone (3).
Watch for the metaphor on Turnips in the kitchen with Chef Didier——!!!! Chef Didier remarks on her zest for life, food, the senses— SP 9 comfort/ SP 8 lust for life. All the while there is an uprightness and decorum that likely comes from her connection to the 1 Wing. She doesn’t mince words, but she is direct and truthful without being demeaning. She had a 9s way of telling folks a direct truth but with kindness and decorum— the way she spoke too Giancarlo Esposito’s character The Senator.
Georgia Bird: “You keep your head down, and hustle and hustle.. And you wake up and ask How Did I Even Get Here?” I always think of Nines with the Talking Heads song Stop Making Sense: “This is not my beautiful house, this is not my beautiful wife, hey… how did I get here? Letting the days go by….”
Is it my Four "assigning meaning to everything" or is there a clear Nine Redemption to be enjoyed here? In the theme of joining this light movie with the heavier Banshees of Inishirin— I wonder are both movies pointing to this:
The Life of Something (or of Someone) not is really fully felt until one knows that it requires risk and has an end.
We saw it last year with The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, and years ago in Paterson and in Carol Shields' The Stone Diaries.