April 23rd, 2009
Wow! Grey Gardens frame by frame. I was discussing this with my therapist last night, who judging by this blog is the only person I talk to (she is). And I was saying I wanted to do a series on types of crazy mothers, like What Kind of Crazy Is Your Mom. And she helped me come up with a giagantic list — enmeshed, self-effacing, obsessive, burdoned, envious, yet get the picture. But then talk turned philosphical: what comes first the crazy mom or the crazy daughter? In GG, it seems that the mother started off crazy but is the more lucid throughout while Little Edie is totally delusional. Anyway, we decided, mother. The crazy  mother comes first.

Wow! Grey Gardens frame by frame. I was discussing this with my therapist last night, who judging by this blog is the only person I talk to (she is). And I was saying I wanted to do a series on types of crazy mothers, like What Kind of Crazy Is Your Mom. And she helped me come up with a giagantic list — enmeshed, self-effacing, obsessive, burdoned, envious, yet get the picture. But then talk turned philosphical: what comes first the crazy mom or the crazy daughter? In GG, it seems that the mother started off crazy but is the more lucid throughout while Little Edie is totally delusional. Anyway, we decided, mother. The crazy  mother comes first.