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Though insane, she's got great spirit

posted 18 years ago by nosnojsirhc
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I found her, in this film, indomitable. I really felt akin to her by the end of the film. Bizarre, yes, and perhaps not so good with money. But charismatic, clever, truly long-suffering and spirited, filled with joie de vivre (and pills), lots of fun. I would think it would be great fun to have her in one's life. As opposed to that hog Falwell, who, like a low-level Birkenau camp officer on a diet of bacon-wrapped, deep-fried Twinkies and coffee, wouldn't be much fun at all.

Why do the nasty, hyperconservative, by-the-book bureaucratic people always get to trump the energetic, positive, and dynamic - in all aspects of life? Just because he's got a set of Brahma gonads bouncing around in a sac under those poorly tailored suits, he's got more gumption than Tammy Faye? No. I think that the good folks have less of a desire to control the world because they are less interested in domination and more interested in enjoying our limited time in life's chaos. So, Tammy Faye gets trampled, and Falwell (or Jesse Helms, or Strom Thurmond, or Newt Gingrich, or Dick Cheney, or Rush Limbaugh, or Bill Clinton or whatever oversize whitey good ol boy you can think of) gets the big bank account and larger television audience and therefore more power in the end. Nauseating little system, that Darwinian capitalism. Makes me want to become a Buddhist Co-op Socialist. Or just an anarchist.

The Tammy Fayes of the world would have a much better time of it all were the setup less heirarchical.

At any rate, kudos to this survivor. Despite flaws, she's fun to watch.

[–] Boggman 18 years ago

Jerry Falwell really is a pig. After watching this movie yesterday I was just completely disgusted at the actions of this man, who uses God as a cover in his attempts to dominate and trample.

This man's Judgement Day can't come soon enough.

This was a good documentary and a very inetersting story.

"After the blood come the boys, like sniffing dogs!" Margaret White/"Carrie"

~Boggy

[–] printersareus 17 years ago

I couldn't believe Falwell read that list in front of all those people. Even if he didn't ask for it, which he probably did. I liked this documentary and I learned a lot, not really knowing a lot about the subject before hand.

[–] jjjunob 16 years ago

nosnojsirhc wrote: "I think that the good folks have less of a desire to control the world because they are less interested in domination and more interested in enjoying our limited time in life's chaos."

Yes, you're definitely onto something there. The sad fact is, the ones who are willing to cheat and to hurt others however it's "necessary" usually win. They get/stay in power, and make sure that the system works so more like them continue to get/stay in power. Nice guys really do finish last--not always, but way too often.

[–] Filmsweep-by-Persona 15 years ago

I'm glad someone here pointed out the Falwell thing. If it wasn't obvious just from his statements over the years that he's a hater, it sure was obvious from the doc.

And here I thought Christianity was a movement about the love of God, a love that reaches to all tribes and cultures.

I fell in love with Tammy Faye's spirit. I'd rather have her kind of faith in God than anyone else's I've seen as of late. May she rest in peace with the Lord.

[–] ericjstacey 10 years ago

I agree. I think deep down she was a really good person, who was caught up in the "PTL" world. I think if she has been a normal person, married in the suburbs, she would have been the exact same person, probably a lot happier. Did she like nice clothes, wearing a lot of makeup? Yes. But is that really different from anyone else? Don't even get me started on Jerry Falwell, and shame on Paul and Jan Crouch