The Squid and the Whale
Yesterday we watched The Squid and The Whale one of the cinemas in Covent Garden. Jeff Daniels and Laura Linney were great in it, the 80s style filming is really convincing, so much so that I felt nostalgic from the first second. It’s a story of adultery, and divorce, and the way that sometimes life is simply a chain of problems and emotions that considered separately are very easy to resolve, but piled up (as they often are in reality) are hard to accept because they bring up so much history and hate, so little forgiveness.It’s also, from the point of view of the children, a look into what happens the first time a child is disappointed in its parents, feels betrayed, in fact becomes an adult. I think that the first time a child realizes that its mother and father are not perfect is when it is suddenly propelled into a maturity that it is not necessarily ready for. I am so happy my innocence was preserved for so long.
Now that I am an adult (or closer to being one anyway), I feel like the good things in life are so hard to reach, and mistakes so easily made, that nothing makes much sense, really. This every day struggle to do the right thing, what is it actually for? Of course, when the struggle ends successfully, then the reward is so much greater than the effort, but it is so easy to feel like Sisyphus sometimes…
Tomorrow starts a new week…
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