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A moviegoing memory from my childhood...

posted 8 years ago by roscoewrite
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In 1974 I saw this film on its initial release. I viewed it alongside my felloe 14 yr old best friend. We were bored and ended up laughing and making fun of the adult characters and situations in it for what we didn't understand at the time. I remember a man and his wife shooshing us from behind...4o years later upon viewing it I REALLY GET IT. Over the years I've viewed it about once per decade and the older I get the more I have shared many of the experiences displayed in the story. Just viewed it last night and at age 56 I'm no longer laughing but relating. Good film memory from my childhood..
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[–] butaneggbert 8 years ago

An interesting contrast to my mid-50s response, as I sit here watching it now - I'm about to dump out of it.

I don't need for a character to be likeable for me to invest in them, but I do need them to be likeable OR interesting. Unfortunately, Woodward's character is actively unlikeable.

Oh, maybe I'll stick it out. I'm intrigued at how heartfelt and deep your response to it is.

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Nothing to see here, move along.

[–] classics_guy 8 years ago

my own mother died May 24th. we had our ups and downs. but were close.
it certainly hits you hard when you have lost both parents.
I too am thinking much about my childhood. how the connection to it is broken, lost.

my mother was unable to speak for nearly 19 years due to a stroke she suffered.
I always missed very much our conversations. yet she was here. then gone for good.

it has me in a kind of shambles. I don't relate to the marriage and children part of it since I have neither. but the distant estranged family part I sure do get. that became more evident in mine, the way it did in hers. so her emotional breakdown is totally realistic. Martin, Joanne and Sylvia were wonderful in this. very sad scene where she views her mother on the gurney on the way to the hospital morgue.