Word: motherhood
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...want to be the most boring, 1950s conventional, but it would be being with my kids...and with other family in some beautiful place on the water and talking about life and, you know, being together...At the same time, celebrating unconventional and expansive motherhood, all the different ways that people mother and all the different ways that mothering, care-taking, mentoring are really valued in the world...
...show, the repressive atmosphere of the McCarthy era--and internal ones threaten the happy time represented by Laughter, as time itself brings changes to all of the characters Max, the star of the show, is a pill-popping alcoholic whose addictions only grow worse; Carol and Milt face motherhood and divorce respectively; and Brian makes good on his oft-stated declaration that he is going to leave for Hollywood. This did not detract from the laughs generated from the play but only made them more poignant...
Perhaps it's the soft, unexpected shock of every sequential tragedy presented in Imani; perhaps it's the rather unprecedented portrayal of innocent joy in teenage motherhood; or perhaps it is just the accepting, enduring clarity and strength of the main character, and the renewal of faith in the human spirit-whatever the case, Porter has uplifted a typically unheralded heroine and established herself as capable of writing with power and grace in a context unbraved by many other authors...
...much is made of the complexities of modern motherhood that you wonder: In the past, did people actually have kids, and raise them competently? Grace Santos (Rosie Perez), a new mother and producer of an a.m. TV show, asks herself this question in the spare moments when she's not auditioning for a nervous breakdown. The film rings true to the desperations that pile on any frazzled working mom; but the tone is wearying, and the film looks peaked, ratty, as if it had been up all night in a bad mood. Perez, a born beguiler, has little chance...
...like many, I clung onto both of them like a die hard indie fan. But then, growing up, realizing we demanded odd things of love, our parents and our world, we tend to brush off these brilliant-brave complainers as if their long struggles with and against masculinity, motherhood and the other arrangements of modern life were nothing bigger than our own childhood naivetes...