On a lonely country road, Karen Richards (Celeste Holm) asks Margo Channing (Bette Davis) if she, Margo, wants to continue to listen to Liszt’s, Liebestraum, on the car radio. Margo assents to silence with the line, "I detest cheap sentiment." I don't think that's being fair to Liszt as to this particular composition, which I find celestial, but I agree with Margo in principle.To me, there's something vaguely grotesque about parading on a public chat forum one's most intimate feelings about sickly loved ones, especially when the source is a poster who, instants before, was throwing out bile by the bucketful.
It would be easy enough to comment that bipolar could in some cases be another word for moody and that depression could in some cases be another word for frustration. But such comments would probably be considered cruel or at least insensitive because of the protective bubble the poster erects around the sickened subject. So, I'll state my thoughts separately.
Of course, tales of others' travails are always instructive, sometimes even inspirational. But the switch to the third person would deprive the teller of the sympathy they so desperately, and, in my view, neurotically seek.
I can throw bile with the best of them, but I consider the price for doing so an obligation to keep my family troubles--amazingly few I'm happy to say--to myself.
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I don't see how the two are connected. To go from one series of thoughts to another set of completely different thoughts doesn't seem odd to me... but then again, maybe I'm nuts.
Which movie are you talking about in the beginning?