I have read it, and I did feel like you that she “atoned” slightly more. But —- ooh. I got angry shivers when Vanessa Redgrave does the line about “Isn’t it kinder to leave them alive? I gave them the future they should have had.” (Or something like that.)

So true! The artistic choices were amazing.

YESSSSSSSSS. Judi Dench could be a guest on the Jerry Springer show, howling obscenities, and still be sophisticated.

Do you have opinions about Atonement you’d care to discuss? Something has been bugging me since the last time I watched it, and I can’t talk to My Dear Emerson about it because his tolerance for sad movies is very low.

You seem awesome too! The Lion in Winter — ooof, that movie. Knowing that you see echoes of that in Steve Jobs makes me desperate to see it.

You seem awesome.

TOP 5 FILMS??? Why would you do that??

This is an awesome question! Three of my favorites as a kid were I Want to Go Home and No Coins, Please by Gordon Korman, and The Westing Game. Same with Rebecca, which always stuck with me. Those books feel like time travel to me. I loved GWTW as a kid and would read almost every year, although now it reads ENTIRELY…

WOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOO! If all you know him from is GOT, go watch the first two seasons of Misfits RIGHT NOW. Then you will understand why Iwan Rheon should be in all the things.

I feel like I always knew how broke we were. At age 4 I was helping my family in our cleaning business in the evenings. My mom picked me up from kindergarten at noon, and once a week I might get a treat like a Happy Meal, but then we went to the office where my parents worked and I entertained myself. I remember that…

This was a great read.

Agreed on Picking Wildflowers - despite the slightly icky plucking flowers imagery, I like that song.

Now I’m thinking of truck fucking songs:

I know this makes zero difference, but I am from one of those other groups that they listed as also being targeted during the Holocaust.

SLOTH SLOTH SLOTH SLOTH SLOTH SLOTH SLOTH SLOTH SLOTH SLOTH

It is absolutely real, with a Chorus of:

This was beautiful. They didn’t have to do this. They could have had staffers do this. They could have just left it. They could have let staffers take it for their kids.

Damn, I literally laughed out loud and am tempted to steal this line.

I remember saying I didn’t want to do the walk back down the aisle. I was told I should rethink that decision, because I might regret it later.

STOP. DESTROYING. EVERYTHING. BEAUTIFUL. ABOUT. THIS. WORLD.