Thumper wrote:That's when I knew my little girl was not so little. We were talking about the scene and I told her how horrified I was. She said, "I felt so bad for the mother. How terrible that would be."Rommie wrote:As an aside, I guess I'm identifying more with the parents these days than the kids. I didn't cry at the showing of the suicide, but I did when they had the scene of her parents discovering her. Just awful.
As for the likeability of the characters, Mrs. T didn't sympathize with any of them, including Hannah and Clay.
Yeah, I remember as a teenager the scene in Dead Poets Society where his parents find him affecting me, but not on the level I think it would have now. And I'm glad those scenes are shown, because I suspect Hannah did not exactly dwell on what it would be like for her parents to inevitably find her, beyond a vague "they'd be better off without me."
I didn't really sympathize with any of them either. Probably the closest I got was to Tony, who is clearly grieving/ guilty and eventually realizes what Hannah wanted is not necessarily the best thing for her, and does the right thing. And while it's not the same thing as sympathizing with, I do think by the end my greatest sympathy was for Justin strangely enough- all the other kids just have their own dramas, so to speak, but that kid was actually dealing with abuse and homelessness.
