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...later adoption, after both his parents had in diverse and perverse ways betrayed him, by his fabulously wealthy maternal Uncle Bernie. As he does throughout the novel, Neruda interrupts his story with bracketed explanations of psychoanalytic hindsight. Recalling a family gathering at which he noticed the blossoming of his cousin Julie, he interjects, "[Strangely, perhaps hilariously, I must attempt to explain my interest in her breasts...
...Frighteners" has all the coherence and interest of a story breathlessly told by your three-year-old cousin whilst making machine gun noises. But while you can blame your cousin's drool-filled narration on his still-burgeoning neurons, it would take quite a bit more to excuse the hundreds of people who doubtlessly contributed to the perpetration of this movie. If "Independence Day" showed us how to make good, clean, mindless fun, "The Frighteners" reminds us how to spend millions and insult the intelligence of millions without entertaining anyone...
That attitude makes me equally skeptical about the possibility that this all has to do with sex. After all, even Freud may have said, "Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar." To which Jung may or may not have added, "Sometimes it's an affectation." To which my cousin Sam would have said, "Or a stogie, bozo...
...know that, one day, I hope to have a job which allows me to make college students stuff envelopes, make packets and carry boxes. Yesterday I talked to my cousin and found out that, although he is in Paris and working on what would seem to be an entirely different type of job, he and I have almost exactly the same job. Except that I get to carry heavy boxes and, when I am really lucky, enter data in the computer. Of course, they keep telling me how good I am at my job (I don't go to Harvard...
...think I agree with my cousin about what we should really wish for our future careers. We need to hope that, one day, two cousins will speak across the Atlantic and one will say to the other: Olivia made you do that? Wait until you hear what Turi made me do. 100,000 envelopes in ONE DAY! Then we can really feel that we have made...