Perhaps the best viewing choice for your 69 year old Eastern European mother who was just two days prior released from a inpatient psych hospital is NOT a 1.5 hour documentary of Adolph Hitler, complete with horrifying images and in depth analysis of his evil. After all, she had some relatives who perished in the Holocaust. It’s no surprise that she’s back in the ER tearful, panicking, and nearly suicidal. It just takes a mouse click to move reruns of “What’s Happening!!” to you the top of your queue.
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Maybe “Saving Private Ryan” will relax her.
I’m shaking my head here. My vote is for “Silence of the Lambs.” What the heck was that (adult) kid thinking???
Definitely a foolish choice of films. My mother lived through the bombing of Athens in WWII and my childhood sleep was often interrupted by HER screaming from HER nightmares. Strong stuff.
oh man. What was he/she thinking? Oh I know, “Mom’s fine. if she wasn’t, they wouldn’t have released her in the first place. Besides, everyone knows that mental illness isn’t real.” ;-)
That poor lady.
$10 it was on purpose.
Sometimes you just have to know that you don’t expose certain people to certain stimuli. I guess you don’t learn that until afterwards, but hopefully they don’t do that again.
In a similar vein, we don’t take my father to fireworks shows. The ‘rockets red glare, the bombs bursing in air’ puts him back to places we’d rather he didn’t go.
I think I will go along with Liz. It may well have been done on purpose.