In the beginning....

Rating: 4/10 (28 May 2005)

Am I correct in assuming his mother was sexually abusing him as a child when she was washing him up and down, making him spell quarantine...and when Howard gets to the middle of the word...he gasps...as if something happened to his body..and then continues to spell the word. Also, when she says...'you know what THEY can do to you, don't you?'...did she mean the various diseases..or 'the coloreds down the street'...she had just mentioned to him? If she was not abusing him, it was too much of an intimately charged scene to open the movie with...I liked the movie but the beginning threw me off a little. I did feel a little empty at the end of the movie having nothing to do with the 2 bowls of popcorn I had just consumed. What would America have done without Howard Hughes...his contributions to aviation were amazing. I enjoyed Leonard di Caprio's acting...especially when he was alone in his room with all the red lighting around him...he looked an awful lot like the real Howard Hughes himself. Any comments about the opening scene that I mention above? Curious if I've seen so much soft porn on TV and movies that I am beginning to see it everywhere...or becoming immune to it. Thanks.