... you can learn from:
Rabbit Hole (2010)
Becca: Does it ever go away?Nat: No, I don't think it does. Not for me, it hasn't -has gone on for eleven years. But it changes though.Becca: How? Nat: I don't know... the weight of it, I guess.At some point, it becomes bearable. It turns into somethingthat you can crawl out from under and...carry around like a brick in your pocket. And you...you even forget it, for a while. But then you reach infor whatever reason and - there it is. Oh right, that.Which could be aweful - not all the time. It's kinda...Nat: not that you'd like it exactly, but it's what you've gotinstead of your son. So, you carry it around. And uh...it doesn't go away. Which is...Becca: Which is what?Nat: Fine, actually.
A happy 54 to John Cameron Mitchell today!
1 comment:
I've always remembered that monologue. Reminds me of this from Karle Wilson Baker: "I love the friendly faces of old sorrows. I have no secrets that they do not know."
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