This weekend, unlike so many, Cathy and I are both
at home. I’ll need to go to the marina
to take care of a couple arriving and departing charterers, but I won’t be out
on a boat all weekend as I often am.
Cathy will need to go into the office for a while to play catch-up
there, but at least she’s not out of town.
We’re having a rare weekend mostly together, and so last night we went
to see the movie titled above. What a terrific
movie!
The title refers to the survival strategy of the
protagonist (played by Bradley Cooper) who is released form a mental institution
and must now learn to cope with life’s challenges: how to rebuild a
relationship with his estranged wife, and how to engage, without seeming crazy,
a world where people are in their own way all a bit crazy. His journey is simultaneously comic and pathetic. Along the way he reluctantly becomes involved
with a woman (played by Jennifer Lawrence) who, after being victimized by life’s
vagaries, is also struggling for sanity.
Together they find a strategy to cope, heal and love again.
The script and acting are both brilliant. The film is hysterically comic and
universally human. Everyone has their own wounds from living in
a crazy world. Everyone has scripts in
their head, scripts written to justify and protect themselves. These scripts
are like music heard by no one else.
They trigger movement and behavior that can seem inappropriate, but
which is congruent with their script. As
wounded individuals living in a world of wounded people, our challenge is to
understand our own scripted music and develop strategies for coping with those
in others.
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