Samstag, 12. September 2020

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolfe?

 ideal marriage

I don't recall having ever watched this through before. Really cathartic. Excellent theater, acting. I think one needs certain experiences to get it. Age brings maturity and marriage is actually all about brutally tearing into one another, loving one another, learning each other' s games again and again and growing beyond all that. Mutual therapy. Films nowadays are just superhero nonsense. We expect perfection, ease in life. Maybe all the distractions. No TV here or radio or anything except the car and jukebox. Mid sixties this couple was perhaps 10 years older than my parents or 5 years. so similar attitudes. Woman with degree but no career and a housewife and children as life fulfillment therefore. Maybe less important for a double income couple being busy to have kids nowadays and maybe when the partner gets too psycho one bails out of the relationship instead of just playing along, learning to manage the otner person' s inner mental illnesses from childhood traumas. I take this sort of hate and pain, as did my parents and just laugh. That''s life. That's marriage. Like some job that has its ups and downs over many years. But you don't see portrayals of natural situations like this nowadays. 

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