Vineland

[Meg Larson]

Stephen sez:

I see the scene as more a contrast between the melodramatic view of the 
> past (i.e. the way we write, read, or view history) and the prosaic 
> "reality" of the present.  Throughout there is a striking contrast
between 
> the Frenesi radical/fascist of the 60s and the suburban mom of the 80s. 
>  But is Frenesi necessarily a different, matured person?  What we know of

> the Frenesi of the past is through film, stories, and the narrator, all 
> selective and subjective views of our Holy Grail.  As Prairie puts the 
> pieces together, we wait in anticipation for the imminent encounter,
which 
> ends up being a mundane family reunion.
>
A-and ain't that the way it always goes???  The quest is always more
poignant when the object lusted after--in this case, Prairie's MOM--is
withheld and it becomes a mundane moment.  Just like someone's
(sorry--forgot who) earlier recounting of his nightmare that _M&D_ won't
live up to the wait--Prairie and Frenesi had nostalgic views of that 24 fps
time period.  Frenesi was too tired--too "grown up (?)", to live up to
Prairie's expectations; they both were yearning for that Frenesi of old . .