Running With Scissors just opened (some spoiler)

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In fact it still on preview and I have deliberately not looked back to what anyone said about it.
I found it a story both explicitly about a boy growing up and figuratively about America falling apart through the 70s.
As Anette Bening's mother grows ever more dependent on Valium and her therapist cum guru the total self centredness of almost everyone in the film, pontificating and trying to group people round them like an infinite regression of Charlie Mansons, prophets more interested in other people fulfilling their needs and most interested in their personal profit.
The relying on one quack figure after another seemed to me to echo the falling apart, the reliance on cocaine and downers and the longing for the old sureties that lead the USA to Reagan.
Well just call me an old sentimentalist.
Both very funny and profoundly depressing this meeting of The Addams Family and Who's Afraid Of Virginia Wolf plays out the vampiric nature of many people, while the one underachiever (or seemingly so) character watches old vampire movies and eats dog biscuits.
I actually enjoyed it very much although I can understand if some see it very differently.

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Topic - Running With Scissors just opened (some spoiler) - dave c 23:26:35 03/28/07 (5)

The little kid deserved an Oscar........... - mr grits 09:56:40 03/29/07 (0)

Re: Running With Scissors just opened (some spoiler) - afilado 08:36:15 03/29/07 (2)

It was the best "acted" film last year.......worth seeing from that standpoint. * - mr grits 09:57:47 03/29/07 (1)

You're on....! - afilado 14:23:40 03/29/07 (0)

I loved it - DavidLD 07:25:06 03/29/07 (0)

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