| I don't think she *arrived* at the reunion steps away from suicide either. Yes, absolutely, there's a "dangerous amount of weight and emotion hinging on this evening", but I think she arrives nervous and even optimistic. That line, though, comes in the very last scene, when the fantasies that have carried her through thirty years of an unsatisfying marriage have all shattered. *In that moment*, right after the end of the Loveland sequence before Buddy starts to pick her up, I think it's legitimate to play her as on the edge of suicide - but it's *only* legitimate in that moment, and it certainly isn't something that should be brought into 'Losing My Mind'. |
