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User Reviews for: The Glass Castle

JoJoConejo
CONTAINS SPOILERS5/10  8 months ago
It was pretty good but they really gotta stop with this s**t in movies about daughters or sons having a rough childhood, then parents end up sick and the now adult kids forget years of suffering, neglect and whatnot to forgive them in the end because it's "the right thing to do".
It's not.
Holding a grudge will slowly poison you so you should let go, but let's cut it with the need to give parents their acquittal. It's not on the kids to do so and it's undeserved.

One good deed doesn't make up for years of bad ones.
"You kinda do"
"He had his moments"
WTF are they talking about?

This is the parents version of forgiving a partner in an abusive relationship "because they loved you". I can't stand it.
We have to require a standard - which is basic human decency and effort uh, not the moon - even on this.

Btw this has absolutely nothing to do with her later life choices, as it seems to be another button they press on. A shallow and vain wealthy life is actually no match for the scrappy and disfunctional but in the end lovable one she grew up in. Which is totally true, but not in the case of neglect.
Even in the case of addiction.
I saw recently "Parachute" and a character says: "sorry to break it to you buddy, but this is not your job. Never was. They're not gonna change for you. Maybe they're not gonna change at all. Go do you. It's not selfish, it's necessary". Doesn't mean giving up without trying your best, but at a certain point - you have to.

I wanna see more movies where people are shown moving on without forgiveness or reconciliation. Those are not always possible. But without internalized animosity as well. It's not just anger or forgiveness, there's also letting go and moving on. You simply won't feel anything anymore for those people, and they won't be able to hurt you anymore.
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