Crying at the Movies
"For years, I cried, not over my own losses, but at the movies. When bad things happened to me in real life, I didn''t react. I seemed cool or indifferent. Yet in the dark and relative safety of the movie theater, I would weep over fictional tragedies, over someone else''s tragedy."
At age nine, Madelon Sprengnether watched her father drown in the Mississippi River. Her mother swallowed the family'...
"For years, I cried, not over my own losses, but at the movies. When bad things happened to me in real life, I didn''t react. I seemed cool or indifferent. Yet in the dark and relative safety of the movie theater, I would weep over fictional tragedies, over someone else''s tragedy."
At age nine, Madelon Sprengnether watched her father drown in the Mississippi River. Her mother swallowed the family'...
