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Ellie,
I urge you and anyone on the list to go out and see the movie "Pollock,"
which is the biography of the artist Jackson Pollock. It is unflinching as it
shows his incredible toxic anger and how his wife, the artist Lee Krasner,
was equally incredible in her codependent support of his alcoholism. I see
his paintings now as the most exacting expression of his misdirected rage
against his absent father and against his mother for his traumatic birth in
which he was a suffocated blue baby with the cord around his neck. The movie
ends abruptly with Pollock's suicidal drive in which he crashed his Cadillac
convertible in 1956, killing both himself and a girlfriend of his mistress
--- his mistress did survive.
I have a special interest in this film because the actress playing Lee
Krasner is Marcia Gay Harden. She was nominated for an Oscar for Best
Suppoerting actress. I knew her at the University of Texas 20 years ago and
knew back then that she was destined for the "major leagues" in theater and
film. Also, Ed Harris playing Pollock is a nominee for Best Actor. I'll be
tuned to the Oscar broadcast tomorrow night.
I really think this movie will trigger detox crises, especially in those on the list
who think themselves to be artists. I've never seen such alcoholic rage and
codependency presented in such a natural and pure way in a movie because I
think, it was all rationalized in the service of Pollock's art. Therefore,
the toxic mind was considered the source of great art and was worshipped as a
fetish.
Tom
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