She closes her eyes. He probably won’t be back, she thinks. Or he will, differently. What they have now they can never have again. But for her the pain of loneliness will be nothing to the pain she used to feel, of being unworthy. He brought her goodness like a gift and now it belongs to her. Meanwhile his life opens out before him in all directions at once. They’ve done a lot of good for each other. Really, she thinks, really. People can really change one another. You should go, she says, I’ll always be here. You know that.
NORMAL PEOPLE (2020) dir. Lenny Abrahamson, Hettie Macdonald
sylvia plath once wrote in her journal ‘if i get through this year, no matter how badly, it will be the biggest victory i’ve ever done’ and if that’s not a mood for 2020 i don’t know what is.
“No,” Willem said, after they’d all stopped laughing. “I know my life’s meaningful because” – and here he stopped, and looked shy, and was silent for a moment before he continued – “because I’m a good friend. I love my friends, and I care about them, and I think I make them happy.”
