Fun movie as escape; but made me think a lot!
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — The Banger Sisters
ruffian82 — 12 years ago(January 27, 2014 09:20 PM)
Happened to be on cable when I was flipping thru and I enjoyed it until I made the mistake of thinking and taking it seriously.
There were some serious points to be made:
"Lavinia" had completely submerged all parts of her past in order to please her family; as usual, the more one tries to please, the more others will not appreciate it.
But she's done this for at least20+ years?
She says her husband aspires to politics. Umm, what happens to that?
I personally think it's silly the way we expect our elected leaders to be our parents ("everybody else has sex but not my mom and dad.")
Is he going to just forget about all that or resent her? Will he still respect her or get all "what's your number" about her past? Maybe he'll be secretly relieved too, not to have to follow the path seemingly paved for him.
It was an interesting moment when the girls are pleading with Suzette to tell them about their mom -did she ever do 'anything' wrong- and Suzette just thinks it through and pretty much keeps her peace.
We are all young and crazy (most of us are) and then the children come. The crazier you were, the more you know what's out there and suddenly what was cool for one generation is unheard of for the kids, most of the time.
So what are the kids going to do now?
Feel free to go crazy to just balance out?
Nothing is truly new. Yet ever since the Sixties, we seem to go from one extreme to the other in our societal behavior when we're young, these last generations.
Suzette, ironically, will probably go back to LA and still maintain most of her personality but might allow herself to be tamed a bit. I think she's about to form a attachment. It's a sweet and thought provoking way to end the movie when she sees the cute musician hitching a ride and you can see her choose to change. Goldie does a good job with that moment.
But what happens with the Lavinias? I know books have been written about this, articles, the whole War on Drugs deals with it; you have a past, you don't want your kids to have one because you know that pasts have a way of showing up and that some of us are not lucky enough to have a past; some go down in flames. Lavinia knows this.
And while release is good for her in the movie, and good in real life when we choose to guide rather than judge, because "we've been there," it can also be a hard path to tread. Our parents don't tell us everything they did for a reason.
Ideally, every generation would throw entitlement out the window and do what's best for them.
It makes one wonder.
What will happen next with the rapidly widening difference in our economy, in how quickly we process information? What will be important?
See, this is just a movie. But movies are made about things that happen. I'm always interested in the people out there who are inevitably reflected some stories, even if the whole script was a complete fabrication.