Life is very long.

Mercedes 2022-03-26 09:01:06

I kept watching the whole scene with wide eyes, not daring to take a breath, until the ending song sounded, and my eyes were a little wet.

Eileen Chang said it so well: Life is a gorgeous robe covered with lice. Barb said to her 14-year-old daughter in the car: You must die behind me, no matter what you become, how bad you are, remember, survive.

This is really not like what a mother should say to her daughter, but in the face of this desperate world, should her daughter always believe that fairy tales are true, or let her know the truth earlier?

Little Miss Sunshine has become a rebellious girl who not only loves to watch "The Phantom of the Opera" but also smokes marijuana with her aunt's boyfriend.

Her husband cheated, and her daughter didn't worry about it. Life had worn away all of Barb's grace and patience. With grayish sideburns, sunken eye sockets, high cheekbones and dry lips, Julia played a middle-aged woman who was deeply mired in life.

Thank god we can't tell the future, we'd never get out of bed.

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  • Barbara Weston: But her fourteen-year-old self might view it differently.

  • Johnna Monevata: What kind of cancer?

    Beverly Weston: Oh my God, I nearly neglected the punch line. Mouth cancer.