real glue

Kelli 2022-04-23 07:02:47

The film is boring, perhaps because of its resonance.
Memories are thrown back to my childhood - my parents arguing fiercely, and pointing at things - I can only open my mouth with dry tears and wonder what I should do. Is it to do something that will make my mother less sad but add fuel to my father's fire, or secretly say something that betrays my mother but can effectively comfort my father's emotions... I don't want to draw boundaries, I don't want to divide camps, but They are invisibly "forcing" me to make a choice. It's so similar to the one in the movie...

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The Squid and the Whale quotes

  • [first lines]

    Frank Berkman: Mom and me versus you and Dad.

  • Bernard Berkman: Joan, let me ask you something. All that work I did at the end of our marriage, making dinners, cleaning up, being more attentive. It never was going to make a difference, was it? You were leaving no matter what...

    Joan Berkman: You never made a dinner.

    Bernard Berkman: I made burgers that time you had pneumonia.