How they jerk tears in the movies
It's not when something really terrible happens; it's happiness remembered, or happiness imagined for the future, amidst suffering.
posted by Liz Coppock @ 1:07 AM
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A Compendium of Momisms
Are there things your mother "always said"? My children claim I do, and though at first I doubted it, this collection of my favorite opinions and beliefs is for the pudding of which they are the proof.
Wednesday, August 02, 2006
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1 Comments:
you should watch "central station". Its a brazilian film about a woman who takes in a boy whose mother dies. Sub-themes include alchohol, letters, illiteracy. I think it makes your point mega-bigtime
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