Appealing TV: Grey Gardens
Let's start this review by getting one thing clear: I am a huge fan of the documentary Grey Gardens. I quote it to myself every...
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rachael said:
April 24, 2009 1:03 AM
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I think some of the details from their interactions must have been smoothed out in the movie if they were known to be accurate {possible spoiler alert! [like for example, when little Edie took off for NY--if it happened like that irl, big Edie would have gone off all over the place!]}, but that smoothing didnt bother me really. I was more swept away by the vintage fantasy their lives were presented as. Maybe that is what happened with the both of them too? Maybe rather than one big snap, they just got so lost in their remembrances that it was impossible to see how they were really living? Hmm...it's fun to speculate on the Edies...I still want to know more.
Carole said:
May 5, 2009 10:04 AM
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I've seen this kind of hoarding from time to time. Modern psychiatrists attribute it to OCD. I've seen relationships like this too between mothers and daughters. Some people call them symbiotic. In this love - hate relationship, where neither likes "to polish," I think when the staff left, the two and the house just fell into disarray. Both suffered several losses and sometimes people break out of reality to deal with the losses. They also blame each other for their losses; hence the dysfunction.