DEPRESSING

I agree and disagree that it's depressing. Depending on how you look at it, it's also a very uplifting portrait of two women living in denial who need and love each other but can't admit it. They were, in a very real sense--soul mates.

It took me several days to watch it. I just couldn't stand it in large doses. Very depressing indeed. I don't get the hero-worship.

Considering who these women's niece and cousin was, it's terrible she let them live in these conditions. Grey Gardens was filmed after Jackie Kennedy Onassis had the place made "livable." Since Big Edie cooked food on a stove in her bed!, getting her declared incompetent should have been a no-brainer. And Ms Onassis could afforded people to come in everyday and clean the cat sh!t, clear the vermin from the place, cook them proper meals, and burn those stomach-churning mattresses.

I really didn't find it that depressing. There were aspects of it that were shocking and depressing, but the film as a whole was not depressing. They had great personalities and had a strange and interesting relationship.