Sally or Ann ?
My elder sister is in her late 70s and isn’t physically that robust.
But…Yesterday she called up to the village , with large bags of logs for my fire and cranberry juice for my bladder. Tomorrow she will deliver mince and potatoes ( a supper I adore)
She’s always been the mother I never really had and watching the Netflix movie Remarkably Bright Creatures today I realised how much Sally Field’s character Tova was just like my sister……tough, empathetic, loyal and opinionated
The film was adorable with Alfred Molina playing the grumpy octopus Marcellous quite wonderfully
I cried for an hour watching it.
Go and see it……it’s a lovely watch
Quite funny that Alfred Molina does the voice for Marcellus the Octopus when in the Spider-Man movie franchise, he plays the supervillain Doc Oc (Dr. Octopus) with the mechanical tentacles! Thanks for the recommendation, I will watch for this movie. P.S. Your sister Ann rocks!
ReplyDeleteThat sounds like a fun film. I'll look out for it.
ReplyDeleteYou're very blessed having such loving, practical and helpful sisters. You must be a good brother to warrant such devotion! xx
Sally is my all time favorite actor and I do have this on my list to see. As for your elder sister, I am not surprised she is there for you. I have one of those too and I often call her my sister/mom. She was there for me when our mother wasn't. Lucky, lucky us eh?
ReplyDeleteTell us what potatoes and mince are! A casserole? Lizzy d.
ReplyDeletenevermind, looked it up. Yummy!
DeleteThanks - I will watch it at the weekend.
ReplyDeleteLoved that movie!
ReplyDeleteI've liked Sally in anything she does, The Flying Nun, Smokey and the Bandit, Norma Rae, you name it.
ReplyDeleteSisters. Sisters. There were never such devoted Sisters. A good brother gets good Sisters, who bring tough love and practical gifts. You have wonderful siblings, and are so lucky to have such a good family. But you know that! Count those blessings. Not everyone has such a gift.
ReplyDeleteOther than the obvious, how are you feeling today? Hugs!
ReplyDeleteI’ve thought a lot about how absent, inadequate or abusive parents cause so many of us such damage. I relate to it all, but I found help and role models to help me understand and heal. The damage lasts generations, and even with help I think it’s about three generations before normal loving, adequate parenting is reestablished. Two World Wars left so many men hugely damaged, and now there’s more damage being inflicted on the children (and adults)of so much of Europe and the Middle East. So, join the dots.
ReplyDeleteDammit, I’m not anonymous, I apologise. I’m Virginia
ReplyDeleteI could never watch a film with an octopus. It's about the only true phobia I have. Even a ridiculously big fake one in Reap the Wild Wind was difficult to watch - Bel Ami
ReplyDeleteGet a grip ruby
DeleteGrandad?
ReplyDeleteOh ffs ….gay dads are middle aged gay men …at 63 can I be called a dad?
DeleteThe book was fantastic, John! The movie followed it pretty well. Sally Field - oh my heart, there isn't anything she can't do! (Steel Magnolias is my favorite) I have adored Alfred Molina forever, LOVED him in Undertaking Betty, in Chocolat! His series work in Three Pines is fantastic as well.
ReplyDeleteYes I liked him in chocolat
DeleteI just remembered that when my brother and I were not well, our Mother would make mince and mashed potatoes and
ReplyDeleteWe called it baby meat. We loved it. I also remember emptying leg bags in weired places when we took patients on outings from the rehab. Those bags were below the knee, but the patients couldn’t move so they didn’t get tangled up. Take care and please feel better soon. Hugs. Your sister is like a mummy to you. Gigi
It was bloody lovely
DeleteAlfred Molino, played the Joe Orton's character partner? That seems so long ago
ReplyDeleteI am sorry to hear about your medical issues. I went through over a year of recurrent UTIs, which turned out to be be caused by a blocked ureter.
You know my pain xx
DeleteAndrew, showing our age but I was about to make the same observation. Hard to believe that film ("Prick up your ears") was almost 40 years ago now (1987). Molina played Kenneth Haliwell. As Haliwell wrote in the note he left after he murdered Joe Orton, "Read the diaries." They are still a great read.
DeleteI just saw a trailer for the film the other day, and it is definitely one that I would like to see. I have always liked Sally Field.
ReplyDeleteShe is a national treasure
DeleteJust watched her in Places in the Heart excellent
ReplyDeleteJean wpg
Oh dear, I hate to be a fussbudget...but I could not watch more than 20 minuets of Remarkably Bright...as a 70-year old woman, I can assure you that we do not sit around and knit (isn't that a Gen Y thing?) , or be scandalized that people our age are eating edibles -- hell, we dropped acid in high school and have bad knees from dancing on too many table tops in our out-of-our-minds 20s. The minutes of the film that I saw were predictable and patronizing, down to the down-and-out guy in the van, the kindly [Irish] shopkeeper giving out free coffee and breakfast, the female characters who have nothing more on their minds than talking about each other in the beauty parlor. The women I know lived through the Vietnam War protests want revolution and they want it now. Sally Fields as the mourning mother who can not move on is a screenwriters plot device -- shit: women my age have moved on , and on, and on from many heartbreaks of marriage, children who have OD'd/suicided, cancer therapies, and care taking of parents.
ReplyDeleteExcuse my rant. There are a lot of us old ladies who are living in the present, having weathered decades of sorrow (and joys) and changes of fortunes, and making more of our lives than what is represented in some sentimental hand job movie about being a cleaning lady so an octopus can reveal truths to us that we are too dim to see ourselves.
Then be a brave 70 year old woman and put your name here! Quit hiding behind "Anonymous". If you are that amazing woman then OWN IT for fucks sake or shut up!
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