If You Work with the Disadvantaged, This Should be Required Viewing

Rating: 10/10 (2 February 2014)

Just watched the film "Monster" for the first time. I have been putting this one off for a decade, because it never seemed like the "right" time to watch a downer movie. But you know what? I realized that if I wait until it is the "right" time to discover how bad some people have it, I will never know. Oh, I feel for my patients---homeless, unemployed, uninsured because they have a disability. But today I FELT for them. And I realized something. Nature is not fair. Some of us---for whatever reason, birth order, genes, nurture---respond to unimaginable, intolerable, childhood trauma by rallying and overcoming and succeeding not in spite of but because of the negative forces that shaped us. While others of us were intended to live in normal homes, with normal nurturing parents and normal food and normal everything, never rocking the boat, never asking for more----and when these folks get f****d over as children, there is no way that they are gonna survive intact. It is probably a good defensive strategy for the species as a whole. Have some people who thrive in times of tragedy and who are bored out of their minds the rest of the time. And have everyone else just want to fit in. But it sucks for the individuals born into the wrong place and circumstances. Charlize Theron is absolutely f*****g brilliant. So is the film. Watch it and be prepared to cry.