mommie dearest is the story of joan crawfords relationship with her adopted daughter, and let's face it there's a point where no matter how much empathy you feel you just have to draw the line and say, well joan crawford was a brilliant actress but a fucked parent and a pretty bad example of a human being. riddled with ego, and enamoured by the glamour she is unable to stop competing with even her daughter whom she traumatises. it actually is about time the media looked at the role mothers play in their children's lives, i understand that occasionally parents fail, it's reality but this is not failure, it's abuse, it's vindictive and often psychotic and despite all the riches and luxuries the fact is joan crawford hated her children. however she was off course a product of a male dominated world, treated as a commodity herself, she didn't stand a chance.
it's her children you have to feel sorry for, they are in a war zone, caught with the conflict of naturally displaying paternal love to their mother and a need for that love yet being hated in return.
watching this makes me more angry than watching the plight of aboriginals in the territory, it makes me more angry than unjust wars and conflicts, this is the heart of the human condition, it begins in the self, close proximity, the relationship a parent has with their children is the nexus, the microscopism of the human condition, we can't get that right, we may as well roll over. mommie dearest. how terribly sad, how fucking evil.