A Room with a View

                                    

     The movie A Room with a View is inspired in the written novel by Edward Morgan Forster. The movie takes place at the beginning in Florence, Italy. In Florence be two British women, one of them is Lucy Honeychurch and the other her cousin and chaperone Charlotte Bartlett. Both are touring and be in “The Pension Bertolini” hotel. The movie begins with them talking about the desire of a room with a view to the Arno. This could be considered the fastest example showing the movie, about the idea of a tourist and a traveler.

     In other scene show both of them continue talking about the view at the dining room, and Mr. Emerson another guess in the hotel offer to them switch rooms and said: I don’t care what I see outside. My vision is within. Here is where the birds sing. Here is where the sky is blue.” In my opinion is one of the most important quotes, because shows better the difference between a tourist and a traveler. I can say that Mr. Emerson was a traveler, because he have interest to see more than the beauty of a place, he wants to see what is around himself. Nevertheless Lucy and Charlotte only demonstrate interest to see the superficial things, only the beauty that eyes can see, not the things that really make beauty a place.

    Other scene later in the movie that tells us Lucy is just a tourist, is when a Italian ask her is she were traveling as a student of art and she says: “No, I am afraid not. I’m here as a tourist”. Then the local man said: “We residents sometime pity you poor tourist not a little. Handed about like a parcel of goods from Venice to Florence, Florence to Rome, quite unconscious of anything outside Baedeker. Their one anxiety to get done and flew and go on elsewhere.” This vision that the local could have about the tourist like Lucy is very similar to the vision that Jamaica Kincaid present of the tourist in his book “Small Place”. Because shows the simple interest of being in one place and not appreciate the place. Really a tourist goes so blinded by the excitement of being in a new place, that only see the big things and not little ones that form part of the place.

     Later in the movie we can see Ms. Charlotte Bartlett and Ms. Lavish walking around Florence. They get lose and Ms. Lavish said: “Two women lost in Florence, that is what I call an adventure”. I like a lot this quote, because can be seeing in a lot of forms. The reality is that a lot of persons can see this like an ignorant form because they were lost. But I interpreted like a woman than want to live the experience of being in Florence. She wants to feel everything and enjoy the place with all, the good and the bad things. Lost in my opinion is the best way to know a place, because you are going to do the necessary to come back. Sometimes getting lost is the best way of find ourselves.    

     The movie perfectly shows the difference between a traveler and a tourist. Demonstrating that a traveler is the one that wants to be part of the place and a tourist is just a person that wants to pass through the place. That traveler create a relationship with the environment, the environment becomes part of his experience. In the other hand the tourist just look the environment and don't create any link with them.