Dee Ay

A very good movie, about the now defunct Regression Therapy that caused so much pain to so many people. I like watching Ethan Hawke, a very good actor, and, good to see Emma Watson take on a completely different type of role.

It was a very disturbing movie. The kindergarden teacher is trying so hard to bring meaning back to her life, that she does not seem to see that she is overstepping the boundaries of a small child's life and innate talent, even though she is trained to understand the boundaries that she is stepping over. The other thing that is disturbing is, just how vulnerable a small child is, in this case his mother has left and his father is hiding behind "too busy". The film ends in the only way it could, having taken the child away from all that is familiar to him and finding himself alone with her, and most likely knowing that his father was displeased with her, the child panics. A compelling movie to watch.

This film really made me angry. A woman who does not have a bad husband, is not badly treated, has two small children, but who simply wears the same miserable martyr face every day, and does not communicate, does not see how she is creating tension and problems in her family, even though her husband begs her to talk to him. She looks at herself in the mirror with the only semblance of interest in anything, throughout the movie. After she escapes to Paris and wastes an opportunity to do anything of interest, she is seen to meet up with her husband, then she is walking away from the camera in a park. If that means she has left her family, that is most likely a good thing. The end.