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So last night my mom and I watched Inception. She was, disappointingly, not terribly impressed by it. In part it was that she doesn't have much taste for formalism, especially of the post-modernist variety - she likes chick flicks and Lifetime movies and things about normal people told in straightforward ways.
For those who don't know my mom, I get along with her fairly well, in that she is a good mother and a good person and we don't really fight. There's a lot of stress between us, though, on some levels, simply because if we were, say, in school together, instead, we would never have bothered to speak to each other. Our personalities, what we value and care about, are so opposite in so many ways. It hurts sometimes just because so much of what I love, she finds pointless. I can't share things I'm excited about, because at some point she will bring it up as just another way I waste my time, or imply that it's unhealthy, or something.
What really struck me as summing up the tension between us was our perspectives on Ariadne - I loved Inception in part because I could sympathize with both the female characters, as well as Cobb. I thought Ariadne's actions were the only reasonable ones for her to take. If you offered me a chance to build worlds, how could I resist that? How could it NOT be addictive? My mom thought she was not stupid, but incomprehensible, for coming back the after the first time, much less following through with things.
Just one more reason to get out of the house, I guess. Family is much better when they are at a proper distance and I only have to play the good daughter sometimes.
For those who don't know my mom, I get along with her fairly well, in that she is a good mother and a good person and we don't really fight. There's a lot of stress between us, though, on some levels, simply because if we were, say, in school together, instead, we would never have bothered to speak to each other. Our personalities, what we value and care about, are so opposite in so many ways. It hurts sometimes just because so much of what I love, she finds pointless. I can't share things I'm excited about, because at some point she will bring it up as just another way I waste my time, or imply that it's unhealthy, or something.
What really struck me as summing up the tension between us was our perspectives on Ariadne - I loved Inception in part because I could sympathize with both the female characters, as well as Cobb. I thought Ariadne's actions were the only reasonable ones for her to take. If you offered me a chance to build worlds, how could I resist that? How could it NOT be addictive? My mom thought she was not stupid, but incomprehensible, for coming back the after the first time, much less following through with things.
Just one more reason to get out of the house, I guess. Family is much better when they are at a proper distance and I only have to play the good daughter sometimes.