matrimony 's speed limit is a 1913 silent comedy short film produced and directed by pioneering female film maker alice guy-blaché .

it was produced by solax studios when it and many other early film studios in america 's first motion picture industry were based in fort lee , new jersey at the beginning of the 20th century .

the story concerns a young man ( fraunie fraunholz ) who refuses to accept financial assistance from his wealthy girlfriend ( marian swayne ) in favor of earning his own fortune on the stock market .

she concocts a plan to convince him that he will collect an inheritance from a wealthy aunt if he marries before noon .

while he desperately proposes to every female he meets , she is trying to reach him before he finds a girl who will say " yes " .

with only minutes to go before the deadline expires , he gives up his search and intends to commit suicide under the wheels of the next passing car .

however , the vehicle contains both his fiancee and a minister , who marries them on the spot .

one of only two of guy-blaché 's films to survive out of her ouvre of more than 300 , its preservation was initially financed by the women 's film preservation fund upon its inauguration in 1995 .

subsequently , it was selected to the national film registry by the librarian of congress in 2003 .

matrimony ' s speed limit

matrimony ' s speed limit is a 1913 short film directed by alice guy - blachè .
matrimony’s speed limit . 1913 . directed by alice guy - blaché desperately seeking susan . 1985 . directed by susan seidelman
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matrimony’s speed limit . 1913 . usa . directed by alice guy - blaché . silent , with piano accompaniment by ben model . 14 min .
for the first year , all of victor’s productions featured florence lawrence . playing opposite her was owen moore , formerly one of the biograph company’s favorite leading men and the husband of mary pickford . victor’s productions were gradually absorbed into universal’s general program . representative films : not like other girls ( 1912 ) ; sorrows of israel ( 1913 ) ; flo’s discipline ( 1913 ) ; the girl o’ the woods ( 1913 ) .
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happily failed suicide : fraunie , despondent when he thinks he ' s failed to get the inheritance , decides to kill himself , and lays down in the road in front of a car . it ' s marian ' s car , which screeches to a halt just in time .
decent silent short . it ' s mildly amusing but rather predictable and the acting is overly broad .
milking the giant cow : a lot of exaggerated gesturing from fraunie when he finds out he ' s ruined .
many of the universal productions made in new jersey studios were short films . among them : neptune’s daughter , 1914 ; morgan’s raiders , 1918 ( with violet mersereau ) ; absinthe , 1914 ( with king baggot ) ; the house of fear , 1915 .
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a man believes he must marry by noon or lose his inheritance . alice guy - blaché , the world’s first female filmmaker , was a key figure in the development of narrative film . she directed and produced hundreds of films , and was the first ( and , so far , the only ) woman to own and run her own film studio . preserved with support from nywift’s women’s film preservation fund .
easily forgiven : fraunie eventually finds out that the telegram , which almost caused him to marry a stranger and then almost caused him to kill himself , was marian ' s trick , and thus she tricked him into marrying her . one kiss and she ' s forgiven .
a man must marry by noon or lose his inheritance . it ' s 11 : 50 a . m . and he can ' t find his fiancée
a man must marry by noon or lose his inheritance . it ' s 11 : 50 a . m . and he can ' t find his fiancée .
unable to support a wife : never mind that marian is loaded and doesn ' t need supporting ; fraunie ' s broke so he won ' t get married .
a ticker - tape spells out a man ' s doom : he ' s lost his investments . his girlfriend , who is very well off , offers him her finances , but he won ' t have it . a telegram is sent that he is due an inheritance if he is married before noon . she rushes out in her car with a priest in tow to meet him , while he tries proposing to every woman in sight . it ' s an amusing comedy , not uproariously funny , but cute .
marry by a certain time , or forfeit your inheritance
was probably an old plot device even when this was made , and yet it ' s still around . here , though , it ' s the woman ' s attempt to save the pride of the man she loves . a bit embarrassing that he didn ' t think to call her when he got the telegram - i don ' t know if she ' d be happy to learn he tried proposing to everyone he encountered .
zany scheme : marian ' s whole plot to trick fraunie into marrying her . she doesn ' t take into account the possibility that a pending deadline might cause fraunie to marry someone else .
screenplay by leora barish . with rosanna arquette , aidan quinn , madonna . through a series of missteps , a new jersey housewife loses her memory , convincing herself and a handsome man , dez , that she is an elusive hipster . shot on location in nyc’s downtown scene , many nywift members ( including seidelman ) worked on this film . madonna’s “into the groove” performance helped launch her career and made the song a club classic .
artcraft pictures was formed in the summer of 1916 as a prestigious offshoot of adolph zukor’s famous playerslasky corp . , which was at the time the most powerful company in the movie industry . the talent gathered together to launch the new company included d . w . griffith , thomas ince , cecil b . demille , mary pickford , douglas fairbanks , elsie ferguson , william s . hart , geraldine farrar , and george m . cohan .
alice guy - blachè was film ' s first female director . she happened to see one of the first screenings of the lumiere films in 1895 and within a couple of years was making her own movies ; she worked until 1920 .
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goldwyn pictures corporation was formed in december , 1916 by samuel goldfish , edgar and archibald selwyn , margaret mayo , and arthur hopkins . the name was formed by combining the names of goldfish and selwyn . the dominant figure in the company was sam goldfish , who had been one of the founding partners in the jesse l . lasky feature film co . two years earlier . he was forced out of the company in early 1916 when lasky’s business connection with adolph zukor’s famous players film co . was tightened . sam goldfish liked the goldwyn name so well that he had his name changed to goldwyn .
new jersey’s world pictures was founded to import foreign - made features on a title - by - title basis . in 1914 , several investors came together and bought the company to distribute the product of their newly - established feature - filmmaking enterprises . the central figure in the negotiations was lewis selznick . selznick started a new production company , equitable pictures , and enticed movie queen clara kimball young away from the vitagraph company . equitable joined with a production company founded by the shubert theatrical company , managed by broadway producer william a . brady , and with jules brulatour’s peerless pictures under the banner of world pictures , the former distributing company .
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the victor film company , founded in 1912 by the screen’s first popular actress , florence lawrence , and her husband , harry salter , was one of the first companies formed to feature the work of a single star . florence lawrence began her movie career with the edison company in 1907 and had worked with vitagraph before she began to gather national attention while playing for american mutoscope and biograph . the company never revealed the names of its players , hoping the producer’s name would attract an audience , but theater owners began publicizing lawrence as “the biograph girl” and audiences responded . in 1910 , she was hired by carl laemmle’s imp company and he publicized her name , featuring her in a number of films . after a brief stint with the lubin co . , she retired to her home in westwood , nj , but stayed only a few months before the new company was born . the victor studios were in fort lee , and shortly after the company was organized it joined the newly formed universal film manufacturing co . , which released its product .
the solax company was founded in 1910 by alice guy blache , her husband herbert , and a partner , george a . magie . at the time , herbert blache was managing the american production branch of leon gaumont’s paris - based filmmaking company . alice guy blache was artistic director for the new company and directed many of its releases . solax’s first studios were in flushing , ny , but , as solax grew , the blaches invested in a modern production plant in fort lee . the new studios , completed in 1912 , cost more than $ 100 , 000 . the solax studios had shooting stages under a glass roof , dressing rooms , shops , administrative offices , places for scenic and costume design , and a laboratory to process and handle the finished films .
founded in 1916 by richard rowland and louis b . mayer , metro did most of its productions in los angeles and new york city . it occasionally leased facilities in fort lee . among metro’s fort lee productions were : the eternal question , with olga petrova , ( 1916 ) ; the divorceé , with ethel barrymore ( 1919 ) ; what people will say ? , directed by alice guy blache ( 1915 ) .
fox players included theda bara . the first big hit for fox was a fool there was ( 1914 - 1915 ) , which made theda bara an overnight star and gave a new meaning to the word “vampire” , creating a whole generation of “vamps” . this one movie made the company a major force in the movie world . theda bara was a huge star and a completely new phenomenon , a mass - produced celebrity instantly familiar to millions of people through the images seen on the screen . during the next four years , bara ( real name thodosia goodman ) made more than 40 pictures . she played solome , cleopatra , juliet , and madame dubarry . other fox stars included valeska suratt , william farnum , and june caprice . in 1919 , fox’s fort lee operations were closed down , ending fort lee’s role in the establishment of one of the legendary movie companies , 20th century - fox .
world pictures personalities included albert capellani , maurice tourneur , alice brady , clara kimball young , and elaine hammerstein . world pictures filmed lillian russell in her theatrical hit wildfire , and they hired marie dressler and lew fields . they made film versions of a number of well - known plays , such as alias jimmy valentine , across the pacific , after dark , the boss , camille , the hungry heart , mother , and man of the hour . the most talented and best - remembered of world’s directors was maurice tourneur . the legendary joseph von sternberg worked as a film cutter at world . frances marion , one of the industry’s best writers , got her first full - time writing job at world . in 1919 , selznick was able to establish his own successful company and he bought world , absorbing it into his company . fort lee remained the production center for world pictures until its purchase by selznick .
tfw your aunt leaves you a ton of money if you get married in 10 minutes but you have no idea where your girlfriend is . we ' ve all been there . while there is some unconscionably bad mugging going on here , i ' ll give credit that the backseat ceremony is pretty funny and inspiredly pulled off . it ' ll also be neat to watch
seven chances
as a remake . other than that , there ' s nothing too special happening here .
essentially a los angeles - based film distribution company managed by harry aitken , triangle co . leased production facilities in new jersey . the leases were for one or more productions at a time . in late winter of 1915 - 1916 , douglas fairbanks worked on his picture in the papers , directed by emerson and written by emerson and his wife anita loos . at the time , fairbanks was triangle’s fastest rising star . he then worked on the habit of happiness , directed by alan dwan .
at the same time , keystone sent comedy star fatty arbuckle east to make several slapstick comedies in the fort lee studios . arbuckle directed a number of them himself . among these films : a reckless romeo , 1916 : he did and he didn’t ( with mabel normand ) , 1916 ; love and lobsters ( with mabel normand ) , 1916 ; the bright lights , 1916 ; the waiter’s ball ( with al st . john ) , 1916 ; and the moonshiners ( with al st . john and alice lake ) , 1916 .
the films produced by artcraft were not offered in famous players’ regular programs of films but , instead , were distributed through paramount pictures , the distributing organization controlled by zukor’s companies . artcraft pictures were made in famous players’ hollywood and new york studios and the peerless studio in fort lee , which was leased to expand production . the first film produced in fort lee was the pride of the clan ( exteriors shot at marblehead , ma ) , directed by maurice tourneur and starring mary pickford . this was followed by a poor little rich girl , also directed by tourneur with mary pickford returning to her popular young girl role .
a number of well - known movie personalities formed their own production companies ; sometimes they were closely aligned to larger film companies . clara kimball young’s two companies were equitable and clara kimball young film corporation , which were related to world pictures and selznick . silent film actress and broadway star gail kane formed her own production company . among the largest of these independents were maurice tourneur productions ; jans pictures , inc . , leonce perret pictures , inc . ; albert capellani productions ; emile chautard productions ; and hope hampton productions ( founded by her husband , jules brulatour ) . many of these companies were formed at the time the larger companies were leaving new jersey for hollywood .
biograph used fort lee extensively for location shooting as early as 1908 . numerous biograph films directed by d . w . griffith and filmed by his famed cameraman billy bitzer survive today and are part of the library of congress paper print collection . griffith filmed his epic civil war film the battle on hammett’s hill in coytesville in 1911 . the social commentary short for his son was shot in 1910 using the exterior of the old stone building behind borough hall . the new york hat ( 1912 ) , filmed along washington avenue in coytesville and on main street in fort lee , starred mary pickford , lionel barrymore , and lillian gish . griffith was with biograph from 1908 to 1913 .
william fox started his own filmmaking company in 1914 . the first fox studio was rented from c . a . “doc” willat in fort lee . it had two large shooting stage areas resembling gigantic twin glass barns . this remained fox’s principal studio for the next several years until production was shifted to new york city and los angeles in 1919 . many other studios in new jersey were used , among them facilities in hoboken , jersey city , grantwood , and cliffside , as well as fort lee . branch studios were also built in jamaica and los angeles . among its directors , fox hired a young man working for d . w . griffith , raoul walsh , destined to become one of the most famous hollywood directors .
lewis selznick , founder of a dynasty of independent movie producers , was forced out of his position as general manager of world pictures in 1916 . in leaving world pictures , selznick took clara kimball young with him and formed his own production company . he leased the solax studio in fort lee and made it the production center for the clara kimball young film corp . selznick also released movies made by joseph and nicholas schenck , partners with marcus lowe in a chain of movie theaters and a new amusement park in fort lee / cliffside park , palisades amusement park . the schencks and lowe would later be important partners in metro - goldwyn - mayer . in 1916 , they began to produce movies starring joseph schenck’s new wife , jersey city - born norma talmadge .
in the early days of the american movie industry , the fort leecoytesville area became new jersey’s busiest production center . the first permanent film studio built there was the champion film company . champion was one of the independent companies that defied the dominance of the motion picture patents company . its studio was built in a remote area in coytesville , north of fort lee . the building was designed to look as little as possible like a movie studio so the motion picture patents company ( dubbed “the trust” , of which thomas edison was a key component ) detectives would have a hard time finding it . champion was one of the companies which joined in the founding of universal in 1912 . the old champion studio building , still standing on a side street in the coytesville section of fort lee , is one of the few surviving movie buildings .
other artcraft productions in fort lee were : wild and wooly ( with douglas fairbanks ) , 1917 ; barbary sheep ( tourneur and elsie ferguson ) , 1917 ; and the man from painted post ( douglas fairbanks ) , 1917 . during 1918 and 1919 , new jersey facilities were also used for productions of famous players , artcraft’s parent company . maurice tourneur made the bluebird ( 1918 ) and prunella ( 1918 ) for famous players . other famous players productions made in fort lee included : when the boys come home ( directed by john emerson , written by emerson and anita loos ) , 1918 ; the test of honor ( with john barrymore ) , 1918 ; mrs . woggs of the cabbage patch ( with marguerite clark ) , 1919 ; billeted ( with billie burke ) , 1919 ; and black is white ( with dorothy dalton ) , 1919 .
the universal film manufacturing co . was formed in 1912 as a combination of several existing companies , including three new jersey ones : éclair , champion , and nestor . these companies joined several of the other independent film companies : imp ( independent motion picture co . ) , powers , bison , crytal and rex . universal also formed two new companies , gem and fort lee’s victor . at first , it was a loose confederation , but universal soon underwent a series of intense control battles which eliminated pioneer film executives such as mark ditenfass and david horsely . carl laemmle gained control , and would lead universal studios thorough the mid - 1930s . smaller studio facilities were gradually eliminated and production was consolidated in larger , more central facilities . in the west , universal city was built ; in the east , a new studio was built in fort lee in 1916 . in 1917 , the studios were leased to goldwyn , with universal announcing that it would use the old champion studios in coytesville .
representative films : abernathy kids to the rescue ( 1910 ) ; the cowboy and the squaw ( 1910 ) ; days of the early west ( 1911 ) ; camille ( 1912 ) . champion performers included gertrude shipman , irving cummings , and evelyn frances .
the french film manufacturing company , societe francaise des films et cinematographes éclair , opened an american branch with a studio at fort lee in 1911 . its studio , designed by the firm which designed its new paris facilities , was considered the very latest in movie studio design . it combined glass - covered shooting stages with administrative offices , photographic laboratory , dressing rooms , scenery storage , and workshops , all in one plant . in 1912 , the éclair american company joined with the new universal film manufacturing company and its productions became associated with the release patterns of the larger company . on march 17 , 1914 , fire destroyed negatives and the main studio building . éclair officers included jules brulatour ( 1911 ) .
the product of éclair consisted mostly of short films but , as feature productions became more prominent , disappeared from the universal studios program . representative films : hands across the sea ( 1911 , 1st release ) ; robin hood ( 1912 ) ; soul to soul ( 1913 ) ; the jester ( 1914 ) . starring in éclair productions were british actress barbara tenant , fred truesdell , swedish actor oscar a . c . lund , muriel ostrich , and john adolfi .
alice guy blache qualifies not only as one of the first women to direct movies , but one of the first business women in the industry as well . when the blaches were not using their studio , they would lease it to other production companies , and the facilities continued to be used under the solax name even when they were leased to companies such as goldwyn . the blaches continued to work in this pattern until late in the ’teens , when dissolution of their marriage ended their partnership .
representative films : dublin dan ( 1912 ) ; rogues of paris ( 1913 ) ; shadows of the moulin rouge ( 1914 ) ; the pit and the pendulum ( 1916 ) . solax performer included olga petrova , ethel barrymore , john barrymore , and alla nazimova .
in 1914 and 1915 , world pictures released equitable , peerless , and shubert pictures , as well as the products of a number of independent companies , including a san francisco - based company , the california motion picture corp . production was gradually concentrated at the fort lee studios , centering about the peerless studio , built in 1914 ( by jules brulatour , who had made a fortune selling film stock to independent filmmakers ) and the paragon studio , built in 1916 ( the “brulatour building” which brulatour built to produce film stock , still stands today on jane street ) . the name of the film distribution company gradually began to dominate the operations of these various production companies and world pictures is the name best remembered today .
selznick merged with adolph zukor , president of famous players pictures , in 1917 . the company name was changed to select pictures . selznick organized a new selznick film company . he acquired enough capital to buy out zukor and merged the two companies into selznick - select . he then bought control of world pictures’ film exchanges , renaming them republic distributing corporation . he began a shift of operations to california , although selznick films continued to be made in new jersey well into 1920 .
representative films : war brides ( 1916 ) ; the easiest way ( 1917 ) ; the claw ( 1918 ) ; getting mary married ( 1919 ) ; the flapper ( 1920 ) . representative players include clara kimball young , jack holt , owen moore , richard barthelmess , hedda hopper , matt moore , alice brady , marion davies , and norma talmadge .
the goldwyn company rented studios in fort lee , at first the solax studios but later the larger universal studios on main street . the first picture released was polly of the circus in september , 1917 , starring mae marsh . although most of it was shot in fort lee , scenes of a horse race were filmed in ho - ho - kus , a circus parade in englewood , and the early arrival of the circus in kirksville . sam goldwyn remained the dominant figure in the company until september 1920 , when he was forced to resign in an ownership struggle . by this time , the company purchased the former triangle studios in los angeles and had leased two more studios in new york . the operation in fort lee was virtually ended .
representative films : polly of the circus ( 1917 ) ; tillie the scrubwoman ( 1917 ) ; thirty a week ( 1918 ) . featured players included mae marsh , mabel normand , pauline frederick , madge kennedy , tallulah bankhead , marie dressler , will rogers , and e . k . lincoln . featured directors included raoul walsh , ralph ince , and frank loyd .
much of the above material is from the book the movies begin : making movies in new jersey ( 1897 - 1920 ) by paul c . spehr .
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fraunie is a businessman who has a rich girlfriend , marian . after fraunie is ruined in the stock market , he breaks off his engagement to marian . marian offers to bail him out , but he refuses . marian then hits on an idea : she will fake a telegram to fraunie in which he is told he will receive a large inheritance , but only if he marries that day . however , marian doesn ' t consider that the time pressure might lead fraunie to marry someone else .
establishing character moment : marian is shown in her first scene flouncing around the garden picking flowers , establishing her as sweet and feminine .
fainting : one decidedly plain woman faints dead away when fraunie makes his proposal .
race against the clock : fraunie has a tight deadline to get married by 12 noon in order to get the money . or so he thinks .
race for your love : marian has to go on a frantic cross - town chase to make sure fraunie marries her and not some other woman .
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extra star just for the steamroller coming up behind the in - car wedding ceremony . that was the only thing that made me laugh , besides the fact i ' m pretty sure the girlfriend forged the death inheritance telegram ? well played .
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produced and directed by a female , this comedy features a clever concept but only one or two laughs ( one of which is not so pc for modern audiences ) .
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the documentary we need to talk about dad aired in january and followed tv presenter brendan courtney as he dealt with the complexities of organising care for his dad frank .
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ok , we ' re feeling a bit more relaxed about family pictures now , we have about 15 pictures we ' d like to take so we ' ll allow 45 minutes . we ' ll tell our families to be there 30 minutes ahead of time and we ' ll let you know about our family drama ! what about wedding party pictures ?
the controversial film we need to talk about kevin raises the question : can children be evil ? marlow stern watched the movie with child psychiatrist alan ravitz . warning : some spoilers .
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before the film opens , the character referred to in the title of lynne ramsay’s we need to talk about kevin , at the age of 15 , has massacred a number of his fellow schoolmates . in flashbacks , we learn something about his short , unhappy life .
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charlie does open up a bit to talk about noel and how he saw him collapse on the road and pulled over to help .
the documentary we need to talk about dad aired in january and followed tv presenter brendan courtney as he dealt with the complexities of organising care for his dad frank . brendan discussed with his sister how they might afford nursing home care , including remortgaging their homes .
you don’t want to be mean about it ,
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because people work really hard at it . but it is depressing . ”
british director lynne ramsay’s adaptation of lionel shriver’s novel , we need to talk about kevin , deals with a high - school massacre , raising uncomfortable questions about family and adolescence , as mark fisher discusses in his review . ( the film is now available on dvd from oscilloscope pictures . )
the past and present in ramsay’s adaptation of we need to talk about kevin are offered in fragments , which an audience member is asked to make sense of and which are intended to form a coherent picture . to a certain extent they do , but again , to what end ?
the rte documentary we need to talk about dad , focused on the difficult choices faced by the courtney family in trying to provide the best care possible for frank after he had a stroke . it highlighted in particular the difficulties in navigating the fair deal nursing home support scheme and the fact that it does not cover care in the home .
we need to talk about kevin is a mother’s horror story , or a horror story about motherhood . one could say it is every mother’s worst fear ( or one of them , a parent’s life being hardly lacking in worst fears ) ; or , conversely , that it is the wish - fulfilment fantasy for those who choose not to have children ( why shouldn’t this happen to any parent ? ) . in the novel , eva refers to both alien and rosemary’s baby , but these cinematic precursors are about the horrors of pregnancy ; in we need to talk about kevin , the real horror only ensues after a child’s birth .
it is with great sorrow that we announce the passing of our dad frank . he passed away peacefully this morning , details urltoken urltoken
but we need to have a heart - to - heart , all right ? i know this can be tough , but meet me halfway .
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half watching . what ever happened to dad , did he go to prison . is he out now ?
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what ? we keep hearing about this first look concept . isn ' t it bad luck to see each other before the ceremony ? i think we want to be more traditional . . .
in the video , you talked a little bit about how you used to be “emo , ” but now you’re more “scene . ” can you explain what that means ? i don’t want to talk about that . i just don’t want to .
in a perfect world , everyone would be treated equally and we don’t need to think so much about skin color and other identity traits , which is why it is so tempting to fall for color - blindness . but the ideal world does not exist yet , and the more that we believe that it does , the less likely we can bring it into being . we do not yet live in a racially just pooh corner’s . we never have . there is no equitable pooh’s corner to return to !
“xyz foundation decided to focus on organizations doing work with minorities . that’s great for organizations like yours , but what about the rest of us ? i just don’t understand . i just don’t get why we need to keep focusing on race . ”
the director observes that she “wasn’t interested” in the phenomenon of school shootings . “i wasn ' t trying to make an issue - based film . ” instead , she was intrigued by “the mother - son relationship , ” this “perverse love story . ” we need to talk about kevin , asserts ramsay , is “about the unexplainable . that sometimes evil comes from some , you know , somewhere unexplained . ”
hmm , we have divorced parents who ' ve remarried and they ' re not friendly , we also have new siblings and there ' s a little family drama . how will we handle this ?
i’ve watched lots of your videos , and i saw one where you talk about changing the name of your channel to “sceneable . ” can you tell me about why you decided to change the name ? i don’t know . i just liked it better .
- family pictures are about your families . looking relaxed and their very best . not about the epic view over the ocean .
lionel shriver’s novel , we need to talk about kevin , was published in 2003 , and lynne ramsay has been trying to make a film version for a number of years . the writer - director ( born in glasgow in 1969 ) first came to prominence for the much praised ratcatcher in 1999 . her far weaker morvern callar , with samantha morton , was released in 2002 .
the ai also wanted to warn us humans about the dangers of mass surveillance .
went according to plan — as a minor , he got nowhere near the sentence he deserved ) . kevin hates his dad ?
irish farmers and food producers don’t need bord bia to try and persuade vegetarians and vegans to eat meat , writes eva dowling .
i’d spent over 6 months producing the documentary ‘we need to talk about dad’ through rare day for channel 4 . the johnsons had twenty years of happy marriage , professional success , a lovely home , blond - haired children . they were nicknamed the ‘sunday supplement family’ by locals , and appeared to have it all . then one day , nick johnson , told his wife he had a surprise for her , led her blindfolded into the garden , and committed an awful act of violence .
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you talk a lot about different forms of government , you’ve got some strong opinions of trump , is politics something you could see yourself getting involved in as an adult ? yeah .
then two years later you decided to start posting your own videos . what was the first video you uploaded ? um , well it was about a topic i can’t … i don’t even have the energy or the will to talk about … okay , so i used to like pokémon . i’m not interested in it anymore , and it was a video about that .
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if we are gender - blind , then we can’t address systemic sexism and misogyny that lead to , for example , women being paid less for the same or higher - quality work . if we are transgender - blind , then we can’t address the ingrained cissexism in society that leads to high violence rates against transgender individuals . if we are sexual - orientation - blind , we can’t effectively tackle the barriers facing many people not just in marriage equality but across a range of issues such as adoption and discrimination in housing . if we are age - blind , we can’t fight the implicit and explicit biases against older adults , such as when applying for jobs , or the challenges youth and younger adults face in the workplace . if we are rural - urban - dynamics blind , we can’t solve the inequitable distribution of resources and influence among geographic areas . if we are faith - blind , we cannot fight the persecution and discrimination people face for their beliefs . if we are intersectionality - blind , we can’t address the compounding challenges of multiple identities affected by implicit biases and systemic injustice .
you ' d think so but sadly no . 10 minutes just isn ' t realistic - heck it ' ll take us 10 minutes to even get started while we wait for your dad who ' s always late or for your grandmother to get out of the car . each family picture only takes seconds to capture but for each group of family members we need to allow 3 - 5 minutes to gather and arrange them and then take multiple exposure to make sure we have great expressions and no blinking . let ' s have a hypothetical couple - alex and sam - in ~ 30 minutes we ' d be able to take the following pictures :
lionel shriver ' s novels include the new york times bestseller the post - birthday world and the international bestseller we need to talk about kevin , which won the 2005 orange prize and has now sold over a million copies worldwide . earlier books include double fault , a perfectly good family , and checker and the derailleurs . her novels have been translated into twenty - five languages . her journalism h
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it would happen to you as well ,
marion says , levelly .
…as for the rest of your questions : we manage that pharmaceutically . you know we have class - a amnestics , for people who very badly need to forget things ? of course you do . who could forget about class - a amnestics ? well , in antimemetics , we have a different pill , for people who need to remember things that would otherwise be impossible to remember . mnestics , class w , x , y and z . same greek root as the word ' mnemonic ' . the m is silent .
at lunch , lachlan made rupert a promise .
we ' ll have a better relationship ,
he told his dad , which seemed to hearten rupert . to rupert ' s surprise , and lachlan ' s , their relationship did improve . almost immediately . it really did seem a kind of catharsis . suddenly , they talked excitedly about lachlan ' s plans .
my relationship with my dad is better than ever ,
lachlan told colleagues .
in two of her novels , shriver is not afraid to write about subjects which stick in the craw of most american ' s today . in her 2010 novel , so much for that she tackled to american health care system and in 2003 in we need to talk about kevin , it was school shootings . the story consists of eva khatchadourian ' s letters to her husband franklin ; they start from twelve months after their son kevin has done the unthinkable and killed seven classmates , one teacher and a cafeteria worker . eva is looking b
i feel the same about the whole book and i am just at the beginning ! your point about
sesquipedalian loquaciousness
of writing is spot on .
of baltimore area grantmakers are calling for a one - day where foundations and nonprofits can just get a beer together , or coffee or ice cream , without an agenda , and just talk about whatever .
cassandra truth : franklin simply refuses to believe that there is something wrong with his son , to a point where it almost grows demented . kevin is simply putting up a paper - thin guise as a happy boy to his dad to hurt eva , and resents his dad for failing to see the truth when he was throwing up such a painfully transparent disguise .
there have been quite a few controversial films in 2011 . human centipede 2 , banned in britain , offered one of the more violent , nihilistic entries in the “torture porn” subgenre , while steve mcqueen’s mesmerizing nc - 17 rated sex - addiction drama , shame , featured magneto engaging in a series of lurid sex acts , including an orgy . we need to talk about kevin , directed by lynne ramsay from a novel by lionel shriver , is sure to join them as one of the most talked - about films of the year .
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the 40 faces of st gemma ' s hospice is at leeds city museum until 23rd september . the charity ' s ceo kerry jackson and photographer olivia hemingway talk to neil mudd about # community and the narratives of . . . urltoken
with sunset at 6 : 47pm if we ' re taking all of the formal pictures after the ceremony we ' ll need to have daylight so the ceremony should be moved forward . there is a one hour gap from the end of the ceremony to the start of cocktail hour . the cocktail hour could also be extended for 90 minutes .
when rose tells greg about rainbow quartz , amethyst is missing from the drum set .
“maybe you should release a statement saying that you prioritize skills and experience above everything . that may help calm people down . ” this was said by a board development consultant after i said my organization has been trying to be thoughtful about ensuring we have a diverse board that’s representative of the communities we serve , but that it was complex and we were getting pushback on the fact that though our board is 90 % people of color , we still are not representative .
back at charlie’s office , he is guilt - ridden over what happened to the boy and wants to tell the family . dawn tells charlie to go home and rest and she will talk to the family . we see dawn go and tell the family with the mom crying over her son’s stuffed cat .
me ? i need no time for pictures ; ) the question is really how much time do you need for pictures ? ! do you have small families with parents still together ? 30 minutes should do us . larger extended families with divorced parents , new steparents and siblings ? we ' ll need more time ! what i mean to say is it ' s really up to you how much time we spend taking formal family / wedding party and couples pictures . it ' s your wedding day and they ' re your wedding pictures that will fill your album or hang on your wall . the majority of couples that hire me as their wedding photographer really value beautiful pictures and they want to make sure they have enough time to get the images they want . we can bust out an awesome picture of the wedding party in 5 minutes but if you want to do on - location , take pictures individually with each attendant and get more creative we ' ll need more time !
overwritten . arduous . boring . seeing as we need to talk about kevin is famous for being such a gritty , disturbing read , i always expected to love it in a sick , twisted kind of way . unfortunately , it is not what i expected at all . i had to force myself through one overstuffed sentence after another , only to be left feeling drained and dissatisfied . i knew i was in for a paint - dryingly slow read almost immediately . every sentence is padded out with big words and details that are clearly there to imp
we can truly only ever do one thing at a time , and in any given moment we only have one task that is at the top of the list , writes jeff sanders .
rupert agreed .
we do have a better relationship ,
he told a friend . three weekends ago , lachlan swung by rupert ' s farm in carmel , california , to laze by the pool with his little sisters and play tennis with his vigorous dad .
whether we like it or not , whether or not we are comfortable with the idea , there are people “born that way” when it comes to sociopathy or any of the range of personality disorders . it has to do with genetics , chemistry , nutrition in utero - a whole host of complex interactions that we are only beginning to understand .
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henry comes across as the real victim to me . . . . . the dad has the emtional maturity of a kipper . . . boys come across as the lovliest people
it hasn’t been too long since we last spoke , but you’ve had a busy start to 2017 . what’s new ?
two general trends , which no doubt nourish each other , account for a film like we need to talk about kevin . a section of the upper middle class artists finds it uncomfortable to examine social life seriously , because such an examination would involve holding up a mirror too closely to a society in which they live quite pleasantly . second , decades of intellectual and cultural retrogression , unhappily , have produced a generation of artists who simply find it too taxing to work through a complex social problem . they throw up their hands and produce work like this .
“we couldn’t use fucking coke , we couldn’t use campbell’s soup cans . ” so said lynne ramsay of her remarkable adaptation of lionel shriver’s novel we need to talk about kevin . as a result of this excision of brand names which didn’t wish to be associated with its controversial subject matter , the film is marked by a kind of negative product placement . accordingly , it’s set in a kind of alternative america , an america , you might say , that is the exact inverse of the country invoked by the magical rituals of advertising . here , the family is not the gently glowing space where parents find the meaning in their lives , mothers do not always bond with their children , but teenagers—they kill other teenagers .
we need to talk about kevin is about the aftermath of a columbine - style shooting at a school in a small american town . it focuses on , and is entirely focused through , eva ( tilda swinton ) , the killer’s mother , and her attempts to come to terms with what her son , kevin , has done . eva is persecuted—her property is covered in red paint , she is struck in the street—as if she , rather than her son , was really responsible for the atrocity . eva herself somewhat shares this judgement , not least because kevin’s violence does not entirely come as a shock to her . she has long suspected him to be either psychopathic or evil .
imagine your mum and dad having sex . now imagine they both have a learning disability . immediately we’re at the heart of “mia” , the latest production from bradford - based mind the gap theatre , the only learning disability theatre company to be performing at the edinburgh fringe this year .
we need to talk about kevin is a 2011 psychological thriller drama film based on a book written by lionel shriver in 2003 . ( this film is not the first adaptation of the story ; a radio adaptation was made in 2008 . ) the film was directed by lynne ramsay and starred tilda swinton as eva , john c reilly as franklin , and ezra miller of californication as kevin . it has a soundtrack composed by radiohead ' s jonny greenwood , and was entered into the 2011 cannes film festvial .
bouhadana’s behavior is ultimately one that stems from a sense of entitlement — not just to copy and disseminate another culture ( that’s a whole other conversation ) , but to do so while diminishing the people who created it . as diners , we need to consider what it means when we support someone who disregards history and context in favor of a joke , even if their food is as remarkable as his .
mama didn ' t raise no criminal : large parts of the book are where did we go wrong ? about this trope . they tend to exonerate the parents of any blame for the kids ' actions . . .
greg tells steven and connie the story of how he learned about gem fusion . [ 3 ]
kevin is stunned when the doctors announce they need to amputate jack ' s foot , and sean ' s luck is in when liz offers him her . . .
το we need to talk about kevin μάλλον θα το έχει πάρει το αυτί σας . ανήκουν σε αυτά τα μυθιστορήματα που είναι γνωστά στους βιβλόφιλους , έχουν καθιερωθεί στο αναγνωστικό ασυνείδητο ως
καλά βιβλία
, ακόμα κι αν δεν ξέρει κανείς κανέναν που να τα έχει διαβάσει . συνήθως έχουν γίνει και ταινία , οπότε ο μύθος συντηρείται . όταν κανείς τολμάει να διαβάσει τέτοια βιβλία , βιβλία καλά , από συγγραφείς που δεν είναι στην επικαιρότητα παρά μόνο όταν κάνουν το μπαμ , δεν ξέρει τι να περιμένει . εγώ ένιωσα να π
the talk : eva tries to give a young kevin one , but given the kind of person kevin is , he catches on very quickly , and even refers to it as
fucking
.
he has a lot of potential . he also gets overlooked a lot . it’s hard to come up in this dubstep scene , even when you have awesome production quality , which is one thing jaye definitely has down . working with him was really cool . we managed to bang out tracks within days because we had this brief moment where we were skyping on an everyday basis . we would just be working on tracks around the clock . that’s when we wrote catastrophe and hellion . all of that music was written in almost a one or two week period .
alex and dana are attending layla rowland’s meditation class . the two ladies aren’t doing a good job at following the instructions as dana just wants to ask about alex and charlie . but their talk is interrupted when layla collapses in pain . dana and alex rush to her and determines she needs to go to hope zion and ends the class .
so one of your big topics — and obviously how a lot of people , myself included , have found your videos via reddit — is communism . what sparked your interest in communism ? one day , i heard about it and so i found out more about it . i found out about it’s history of being , um … it started when i first heard about communism and the idea of nations sharing the wealth . oftentimes , schools just spread this propaganda about it being a bad thing , and say you shouldn’t question it and you shouldn’t think about the fact that it brings money to people who need it ; you should just go along with the fact that it’s inherently evil , even though it would stop the problem of having so many poor people .
yes can understand his point of view . dad hit mum over the back of the head with a rock , or something . left her for dead . comletely unexpected .
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: the film version ' s first shot / climax is of billowing curtains in a dark house with the click - click - click sound of a lawn sprinkler in the background . we hear the sprinker throughout the film whenever something really bad is about to happen , so when we reach the final flashback when eva returns home from the shooting scene and we see the same shot from the beginning of the film , with the sprinker going nuts in the background , we know that whatever she finds on the patio behind the curtains isn ' t going to be pretty .
i don ' t think a book has ever made me teary - eyed before ! i have been known to sob while watching a movie but haven ' t actually while absorbed in a book . we need to talk about kevin was it
impossible to put down
as suggested on the front cover ? no , out of the 400 pages of this book , i thought that the first 200 or so pages were extremely hard to get through because this was not an easy read for me . i did not particularly like the authors writing style , choice of words used , and all the details c
2 . it can be really special to see each other for the first time not surrounded by hundreds of people . it ' s just the two of you ( and me hiding out as far away from you as possible with a long lens to give you some privacy ) . you ' ll get to hug , kiss , talk about what ' s about to happen which you can ' t do when the person marrying you is just inches away
if the bride ' s reason is wanting to see his reaction as they walk down the aisle , i can assure you he ' ll be just as enamored after a first look . we are so happy we got to enjoy our pictures beforehand , and then spend the whole cocktail hour with our friends and family . it made me feel so much calmer seeing him before the ceremony . i can ' t imagine not being together for so much of the wedding day . i still felt so excited during the ceremony , but i was thinking about being in the moment rather than wanting to talk to him or say how handsome he looked ( because we already got to do that ! ) .
color - blindness is not good . it is not good to be color - blind . there’s been plenty written on why . psychology today calls it a form of racism . and here’s a piece on everyday feminism detailing how colorblindness perpetuates injustice ( the article also acknowledges that “color - blind” as a term is ableist ) . and here’s an article in the atlantic debunking the argument that focusing on race actually causes the nationalist movement we’ve been seeing more of recently . and here’s a thought - provoking ted talk on how we need to move from being color - blind to “color - brave . ”
righty - oh ! we ' ve talked about how much longer everything will take on your wedding day , how much time to allow for pictures and whether or not you might want to do a first look . let ' s post some sample timelines !
- - - immediate reaction after reading - - - i’m so horrified that i feel sick , and i’m nearly crying , not because of kevin but for kevin , and i don’t know who to blame anymore , or what to feel , or what to think . i only know that this book is unlike anything i’ve ever read , and in all likelihood , will ever read . how can i so deeply love a book that is this agonisingly ugly ? ? - - - full review - - - i knew before i started that reading this was going to be hard . we need to talk about kevin is listed as one of th
situations like this are sufficiently rare that we don’t have an evidence base to know what to do . if you’re trying to treat a sociopath , you have to back them into a corner so tightly that there’s absolutely no way for them to escape except to talk to you and open up . dexter [ from the showtime series ] is a sociopath and can’t relate to people , and it’s only when dexter is backed into a situation of incredibly intimacy that he starts to talk to himself , or people . so you try to build a relationship , but what’s the likelihood that you’re going to be able to do it ? i mean , this kid is beyond treatment . society needs to be protected from him . but it was a beautiful , beautiful film !
eventually , bron is sent off with sour face tarly ( aka sam ' s dad ) to coerce farmers to give up their harvests , which is basically what sansa wanted to do in the north , let ' s call a spade a spade .
i have to say i’m glad i went into this book not knowing what to expect . the element of surprise made it much more interesting albeit disturbing . i thought the writing was very good . it made the characters sound intelligent which made it even more disturbing . it felt very relevant to the events that are happening these days at an alarming rate . and as much as it’s not pleasant to talk about , it is helpful to be forced to think about this issue to try to understand and do something about it . i would like to think that there isn’t a mother out there that would respond to their baby from birth the way eva did . but then there’s the huge argument about nature versus nurture that really makes you contemplate what would reality be in a case similar to this one . i will not watch the movie ! !
before the attack , their relationship was great .
it was a real friendship . we would have debates about how the world works – in - depth talks about serious issues .
he remembers them watching a documentary together and hitting pause on the dvd throughout so that they could discuss the fine points of the programme .
scp - 055 is nothing ,
marion says , now relaxing entirely .
scp - 055 is , as described in the file , a powerful information autosuppressor . as far as experimentation has uncovered , it can only be defined in negative terms . we can only record what it isn ' t . we know it isn ' t safe or euclid . we know it isn ' t round , or square , or green or silver . we know it isn ' t stupid . and we know it isn ' t alone . but what we do know is that it ' s weak . it ' s weak because it ' s the only antimemetic agent in our possession which has a physical entry in the files . we have paper records of the thing . we have containment procedures . it ' s not safe , which means it ' s dangerous… but it ' s contained .
: one of eva ' s various theories about the reasons for kevin ' s rampage . she notes that
common sense is the nation ' s leading nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the lives of kids and families by providing the trustworthy information , education , and independent voice they need to thrive in the 21st century .
i ' ve started this review 6 times now , and each time , i ' ve deleted it because it doesn ' t quite convey the right thing . i think the problem is that i ' m not sure just what that thing is . but one thing i do know is that i love books that make me feel like this . . . that
i don ' t know what i need to say but i need to say something , to talk about this with someone because this book won ' t keep quiet in my mind
feeling . i guess it ' s lucky that this was chosen for our latest group read then , because i fil
when i called bouhadana to talk about it , he confirmed he does this . he characterized these bits of accented english as “little fun jokes , ” which he likened to how the japanese chefs who work for him use an american accent while quoting drake songs . “maybe in my mind i think i’m japanese , ” he said .
noodle incident : alan is very cagey about the exact circumstances of his mother ' s passing , which required a coroner ' s inquest , a closed - casket funeral and some soul - searching about what exactly she liked to get up to in her private life .
rose indirectly mentioned garnet ' s future vision when greg said he was worried about the future and rose told him to ask garnet .
well , this year we are continuing this now - annual tradition . nwb , along with grantmakers for effective organizations (
when garnet was about to throw the stick for amethyst to catch , the television behind amethyst is off , and in the next scene it turns back on .
i think the issue for henry was that he had been sympathetic and had played the game of happy families to keep mum happy - she clearly couldn ' t bear to consider that the dad had consciously intended to hurt her , she seemed to be living in a cloud of denial imo and the impact of that on her kids was awful . from what i read of the guardian article about it there are 3 children - i assume the girl at dinner was the 3rd , what is she teaching her about her value as a woman ! ? it ' s ok for a dh to crush your head with an axe ! ? henry ' s question of
if he could do it , then could i do it ?
was something he was struggling with because no - one would talk to him about why it might have happened .
the tinsel and sparkle of the faux game show credits gives way to a documentary interview featuring a real mother with a baby telling her story – before the fourth wall shatters , and the cast chat to each other about their real - life hopes and fears about parenthood .
sorry , kiddo ,
o5 - 8 says .
need to know . maybe when you ' re an o5 yourself .
he swallows the pill . marion swallows hers too .
it perpetuates the notion that diversity is bad for some reason : one of my colleagues of color , when told by another person that they don’t see her color , said , “why not ? is there something bad about my color ? ” the other person stumbled to find a response . “if you don’t think there’s anything bad about my color , ” continued my colleague , “then why do you need to say you don’t see it ? ” there’s nothing yucky or bad about being of color . by denying the existence of color , you turn it from something positive into something negative . diversity is good . there are now lots of studies that show that diversity leads to stronger business performance , increased board effectiveness , higher customer satisfaction , etc . diversity and inclusion are not scary . we don’t need to be afraid of them . they’re actually good things . you want to see good things in the world , right ?
be ready for some polemic . we’re bombarded with lots more numbers , always illustrated in inventive ways , and the audience is tested on what we’ve learned in a surreal game show “don’t drop the baby” which is as hilarious as it’s grotesque .
to name just a few ) . unlike the old school wedding videographers who just stood at the back of everything with a tripod , these talented filmmakers product some of the most amazing wedding trailers ever . and they need time with you to get that footage . i ' d like to think i work really well with these film team and
share
the time we have with the couple ( at least i hope i do ! ! ! ) but it ' s worth checking with your film team to see if they need specific time with you .
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lionel shriver ' s novels include the new york times bestseller the post - birthday world and the international bestseller we need to talk about kevin , which won the 2005 orange prize and has now sold over a million copies worldwide . earlier books include double fault , a perfectly good family , and checker and the derailleurs . her novels have been translated into twenty - five languages . her journalism has appeared in the guardian , the new york times , the wall street journal , and many other publications . she lives in london and brooklyn , new york . author photo copyright jerry bauer , courtesy of harper collins .
that was so sad . the boys came across as lovely and am sure the mum did her best but poor henry just desperately wanted to talk and noone would let him . what a sad repressed family .
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i’m not really sure i agree with the weakness of kevin as a character… since everything is told from the perspective of eva , i think we’re not watching so much an evil that defies explanation , but instead a mother that can’t really make sense of it . we’re not watching the story begin , we’re watching her recollection after the fact , tainted by the incident , so now she remembers her not planing the pregnancy , her despair at the changes of her life due to motherhood and her recalling of the child she never wanted as being evil from birth… but we don’t know how it all really happened , we’re just watching her fight to make sense of this .
anybody else watching ? the boys are so lovely , particularly henry . it ' s awful to watch him try to make sense of what his dad did and how his mum reacted top it . i hope making the programme has helped him to get the answers he needs .
lachlan could feel his happiness sinking . he had a big title but wondered about the extent of his real power .
o5 - 8 says ,
we have a memetics division , a telekontainment division , fire services , ops - a , ops - b , personnel , d - personnel and two dozen others . we don ' t have an antimemetics division .
he was about two or three then , wasn ' t he ? probably not old enough for proper manipulation , but old enough to know to do the opposite of what people want him to .
later , dawn sees the surgical board is filled with a lot charlie’s surgeries that he asked to be moved up . dawn tells the nurse to hold off on telling the patients and she goes to call the board concerned for charlie . we see charlie in his office not looking like himself and we all grow concerned for him .
he ' s described at least once as having scabbed knuckles , suggesting that his scuffles in prison may not be entirely one - sided . his fear about being transferred to an adult prison is more about the fact that he ' ll have to deal with much more than just fistfights there .
i’ve just seen the movie , and i find it obvious that is hard to put all the blame on one person . instead , here’s my view : – kevin clearly has what is called ‘the evil gene’ if you believe it that , or otherwise , he’s simply put : messed up ( call it reincarnation , karma , genealogical behavior , parent’s ego etc . ) – modern society forbids and doesn’t take kindly blocking the child’s personality by the parents . it’s like a golden rule , especially for rich families . no roadblocks , even if the kid’s behavior is messed up . – the main reason . indicated even by the title . “we need to talk about kevin” . there is no dialog between eva and franklin . when it comes about kevin , the two of them are opposed . she clearly sees the problem in him , but franklin as a modern father refuses to do anything about it and even more turns him self against her .
from sydney , lachlan put in a call to his dad . lachlan usually refers to him , even in business settings , as
dad
. rupert likes to keep in touch with his vast kingdom via frequent phone calls , and for most of lachlan ' s adult life few workdays passed without talking to his father about some business matter . mostly , lachlan looked forward to these calls . working closely with his father had been , for a long time , one of the job ' s pleasures . lately , though , there ' d been a shift , an unhappy one . something unarticulated had come between father and son , creating a strain . lachlan felt it keenly .
the mother seems very independent . she loves to travel , and we’re to assume that she’s a travel writer . all that goes away when she has kevin , and she becomes domesticated .
there isn ' t ,
clay asserts .
scp numbers aren ' t assigned sequentially . there are gaps . that number hasn ' t been assigned . it ' s not superstition , we have enough to be concerned about without arbitrary numerological mysticism . we have scp - 666 and scp - 013 . but there ' s no scp - 001 . and there ' s no scp - 055 .
with divorced parents it ' s worth thinking about which pictures you ' d want in your wedding album - sometimes parents get along great and they ' re happy to be in a picture together , other times they haven ' t spoken in years and it would be completely unnatural to have a picture of them together . also check in with your parents separately and find out which pictures will be important to them . sometimes to avoid spending hours duplicating every possible picture combination it can make sense to get a large group picture with mom ' s side of the family , a large group picture of dad ' s side of the family and then individual pictures with mom , dad and siblings .
unreliable narrator : eva . the book is her written account of what happened , and the movie takes place in her mind . however , we ultimately never know if anything is exaggerated or fabricated , since we never get a different account to compare hers to . her brutal honesty makes us trust her more , though .
first of all , i love you . i have met so many wonderful people while doing this work , and everyone i’ve encountered is trying hard to make the world better . the issues we tackle are so challenging and complex . we don’t all have the same backgrounds or upbringings or conversations , so we are on different points along the continuum . some people are at the beginner end , some at the more experienced end .