Gone Away
Published March 10, 2005
But the thing is--she does know something. And it's not her "sweetness" that gives equalontological weight to the opposing point of view--it's her resolve...
I wish I could post actual footage of this scene:
I don't want you here, Uncle Charlie. I don't want you to touch my mother. So go away, I'm warning you. Go away or I'll kill you myself. See, that's the way I feel about you.
She delivers the lines with such understated force...as if she's actuallyconserving the hysterical energy that any of us would feel welling upwithin us if we ever found ourselves in such a situation--saving it upit for the lethal blow.
Even more memorable are the two words--"Go away"--that escape throughher clenched teeth as she is revived by the author of her "accidental"near-asphyxiation, surrounded by the good-natured chorus of benevolentdupes whose innocence she strives so hard to protect throughout thefilm... I once put those two words on my answering machine--during anextended siege laid by collection agents... I don't think it reallyworked (those fuckers don't hear anything--certainly not the voice ofconscience!)--but it sure made me feel better!
And for that, Teresa, (not to mention a wide range of performances in films as diffrent from each other as The Little Foxes, The Pride of The Yankees and Pursued) I thank you, from the bottom of my heart.
- Gone Away
- Published: March 10, 2005
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- Writer: David Fiore
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