Instead, the point of view more casually presents these as the realities of the day, allowing the audience to draw is own conclusions and perhaps marvel at the scenario itself. The movie never goes into overt satire, in terms of the suburban setting, the era, and the changes in the culture challenging and tempting the characters.
He acts as both witness and player in this suburban world, and he records the complex and sad interactions and behaviors of his own family and the neighbors, the Carvers. The film of The Ice Storm is mostly related through the perceptions of 16 year-old Paul Hood. New Canaan, Connecticut, and 1973 are in fact the primary forces in the novel, and the story and characters exist to serve them.
Ultimately Moody’s novel is more a study of a specific era and middle class culture than it is a plot-driven work of fiction. When Hood catches his daughter with the neighbor boy Mike, for example, his outrage is purely suburban and stereotypically parental: “’I will be speaking with your mother and father about this situation very soon’” (Moody 47). At the same time, what dominates is the weakness of the adults, who turn to outdated platitudes when the sexuality they themselves experiment with comes too close to home. There is some depth to them, as when Ben Hood’s sad life of effort and frustrated sexuality is offered as defining him. The story as taking place over one weekend reinforces the cold presentation of the characters. Nonetheless, Moody is unconcerned with their tragedy, except in terms of how it permits him to condemn a culture with no values or integrity. The lives of the Hoods and Williamses are tragic in their way, with little understanding between the family members and a dependence on the artificial. In describing Benjamin Hood, for example, Moody is merciless: “His miniscule eyes were the color of antifreeze…He resembled a longtime funeral director” (Moody 6). Sympathy is then absent from the author because there is a consistent and strong criticism of these people, who are simultaneously hypocritically moral and devoted to the escapism of sex and alcohol. Moody relies on the emptiness and commercialism of the American culture in this year as a foundation it allows him to create two families who are, in their various ways, moving through a world that has no meaning. In this story centered on two suburban families in 1973, the author is as cold in presenting his characters as he is in presenting the unique era and environment.
To begin with, Moody’s tone and narrative point of view is, in a word, harsh. Rick Moody’s The Ice Storm defies analysis of specific elements, and mainly because all elements work together to create a powerfully disturbing whole. Relation of Global Warming and Extreme Weather Condition Power Point Presentation With Speaker Notes
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