Grand Theft Parsons dvd movie.|
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List Price: $14.98 Our Price: $12.99 You Save: $1.99 Features • Closed-captioned • Color • Dubbed • DVD-Video • Subtitled • Widescreen • NTSC In Theaters : 18 June, 2004 DVD Release : 26 October, 2004 |
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| ♥♥♥♥♥ | Harsh judgement against Applegate's Character |
| I saw this movie on Cable in a motel room in Chicago and I really felt for Applegate's Character. I thought back to the time I visited Joshua Tree and about my personal relationship with a man with a serious substance abuse problem. I did stay in the Gram Parson's death room at the Joshua Tree Inn about 10 years ago, and I feel a certain connection to him in a way. When I saw this film, I just thought how terrible the woman Applegate's character is based upon must feel if she were ever to see this film. Gram Parsons basically killed himself. If you haven't lived with and loved an alcoholic or drug addict, you have no idea how this woman felt or would have reacted to his death. Of course she's going to be angry, what kind of person dies like that? He drove out to the middle of the desert and overdosed. He was alone in a hotel room, and he killed himself with substances. Sure, he was a great song writer, but come on, I'm sure he wasn't perfect, he wasn't a saint. You people don't know what it's like to fight for someone with an addiction. You people don't know what it's like to fight every day to make this person whom you love stop using drugs, stop drinking and want to live. To BLAME Applegate's character in the end, was just a low blow. Who are you to make that kind of assumption? That Parsons killed himself to get away from her? Maybe he had his own demons that Applegate's character didn't have any control over. Who are you to accuse her and that she had any influence in his death? You write this screenplay and make her responsible for his death, in the end. He killed himself. Maybe he was beating her, there are several different types of abuse, mental, physical, emotional, sexual... did you ever think of that? Maybe Applegate's character had been abused beyond her limit of tolerance. Maybe he was too insane to live... and his death was the final blow. Death was so easy for him and he left behind a cross for her to bear. Maybe she was just trying to save him, and after his death she had a normal reaction of anger and frustration. Even in the synopsis of this film they call her "Betty (Applegate) the psycho exgirlfriend"...living with a drug addict makes you psycho...that's not fair. What misogynist wrote that discription? To the screenwriter... were you there? Did you witness private moments between the two of them? How dare you say she would be responsible for his suicide. Do you have any idea what it's like to pick up the pieces after something like that happens? His death was a selfish, careless, loveless act. It was his choice, in the end. To include that line at the end, about how he did what he did to get away from Applegate's character did a disservice to all women involved with men with substance abuse problems. That line adds insult to injury. Maybe she was in for the long haul and he was a black hole and maybe she was just trying to pull herself out of the pit he dragged her into. Unless you lived her life, you have NO RIGHT to make that accusation against her. It doesn't help that he was famous and people sing his praises and basically forget that he had a substance problem. He killed himself, she had nothing to do with it... no one is defending her and the screenwriter should feel ashamed. | |
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