I'm wondering what she'd be diagnosed with if it were today? Instead of the 70's where her erratic behavior was seemingly just "accepted" (by her husband for example)
Bi-polar? Schizophrenia?
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She seemed borderline or bipolar or perhaps alcoholic OR just a horrible mother. The seen when she is screaming and booting him from the house is painful to watch.
shareThis might just be me, but I had a feeling that Eddie's dad had his own "little whore." This would explain why he doesn't join in the vicious scolding and why Ed's mom was so bitter.
shareI think she is one of those mothers who have an unnatural fixation on their sons in spite of having a husband. She sounds like the other woman and it's truly sickening because there are real women that behave like this with their sons.
shareI agree with this. It's like the overbearing fathers who have fixations on their teenage daughters (which I always find disturbing and probably subconsciously psychosexual). That was what she seemed like to me.
shareLike Thora Birch's dad, who ironically was a porn star and was in Deep Throat (along with her mom).
PT Anderson was getting out some anger towards his mother. I read in a book that she was a very mean woman towards him.
His dad Ernie was a self involved man and a lot of Robards character in Magnolia is based on him.
From Diggler's mom screaming about her son's sexual exploits the film cuts to his sad, wimpy dad sitting on the bed and listening to the argument through the wall... it could not have been made more obvious what her hysteria was all about.
"facts are stupid things" Ronald Reagan
Bitter and angry alcoholic.
"You work your side of the street, and I'll work mine"
She failed as a mother and his dad definitely failed to be a role model as he obviously is a spineless coward who lets his wife do whatever h*** she pleases with either him or their son.
The reality however is that she actually had a good point. Her son really was a bum who couldn't pass high school, couldn't hold a job and didn't even have a good girlfriend with which to settle down with. The girl he was banging WAS a slut who slept with others and he was just another one in the line. Basically he lived an aimless life working menial jobs and dreaming about fame. Eventually he still ended up in a life of crime despite getting a chance with porn.
She was certainly to blame for him turning out like that and I doubt she encouraged him much or gave him much support. His dad? Probably saw him as a mistake as well as his marriage with her. He should have stood up for the boy.
Bottom line is he was lucky to get a break in porn. Also lucky Jack Horner took him back and gave him another chance.
She failed as a mother and his dad definitely failed to be a role model as he obviously is a spineless coward who lets his wife do whatever h*** she pleases with either him or their son.
The reality however is that she actually had a good point. Her son really was a bum who couldn't pass high school, couldn't hold a job and didn't even have a good girlfriend with which to settle down with. The girl he was banging WAS a slut who slept with others and he was just another one in the line. Basically he lived an aimless life working menial jobs and dreaming about fame. Eventually he still ended up in a life of crime despite getting a chance with porn.
She was certainly to blame for him turning out like that and I doubt she encouraged him much or gave him much support. His dad? Probably saw him as a mistake as well as his marriage with her. He should have stood up for the boy.
Bottom line is he was lucky to get a break in porn. Also lucky Jack Horner took him back and gave him another chance.
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