I agree. The film was brilliant, and Annette was OUTSTANDING. And the speech by CARTER was also PROPHETIC due to the way the warning that he was giving us has come true. And then you've got everyone who watched it rejecting it, except for Dorothea, who says she thought the SPEECH was BEAUTIFUL.
And that's just one illustration of the way in which there's a HUGE GENERATION GAP that grows EXPONENTIALLY with the addition of each new Generation. And with there being 2 GENERATIONS between her and her son (due to having had him at age 40), there's also no way for her to ever really have a meaningful CONNECTION with him no matter what she does or how hard she tries to do so.
My mom was born in 1924.
When she was my age, people...
drove in sad cars to sad houses.
With old phones,
no money or food.
Or televisions.
But people were real.
My son was born in 1964.
He grew up with a meaningless war.
With protests.
With Nixon.
With nice cars and nice houses.
Computers.
Drugs.
Boredom.
I know him less everyday.
I think History has been tough on men.
I mean they can't be what they were.
And they can't figure out what's next.
CARTER'S SPEECH:
There is a growing disrespect
for government...
The schools, the news media...
And all the institutions.
This is not a message
of happiness or reassurance.
But it is the truth
and it is a warning.
It is a crisis of confidence.
We can see this crisis
in the growing doubt...
about the meaning of our...
own lives and in the loss
of unity and purpose...
for our nation.
Too many of us now, tend to worship
self indulgence...
and consumption.
But we've discovered that owning
things and consuming things.
Does not satisfy...
our longing for meaning.
We always believed that we
were part of a great movement.
Of humanity itself...
Involved in the struggle for freedom.
We are at a turning point in our history.
The path that leads to
fragmentation and self-interest...
down that road lies a mistaken
idea of freedom.
It is a certain route to failure.
Thank you and good night.
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