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A review by fran_bielar
Tell Me Everything by Minka Kelly
2.0
I can appreciate the story of Minka, especially as I rewatch Friday Night Lights and truly see that they are all just kids on this show.
Her story is one of incredible circumstances with so much strength and power from her as a child. She had a really tough upbringing and was able to leave the cycle of abuse, violence and poverty that her family had been in for so long.
I’m sure someone is going to say I’m missing the point but I feel like because she worked so very hard to leave the cycle of her parents, specifically her mom, and to find healing elsewhere (ex: by moving to Austin, working to become a surgical nurse, creating her own kind of family) but then the epilogue is her basically being her mom. Yes she is doing it from a place of comfort and feeling close to her mom but to spend so much of her life doing everything to avoid a stripper pole and drugs, to then find the only therapy that works is ketamine and pole dancing classes… it feels like she went on this whole journey to end up exactly where she would have if she hadn’t done all that hard work.
I don’t think that her end result should negate the work and effort she put in to being a better person. And by no means is she a sex worker for the money to be spent on addiction and neglecting her child - i want to make it clear she is different from her mom in those ways. It just feels like fate/destiny is a at play here more than her hard work. Which then begs the question, if life is going to have a predetermined outcome for you anyways, why would you go through the effort of making the hard choices to have a better life?
Her story is one of incredible circumstances with so much strength and power from her as a child. She had a really tough upbringing and was able to leave the cycle of abuse, violence and poverty that her family had been in for so long.
I’m sure someone is going to say I’m missing the point but I feel like because she worked so very hard to leave the cycle of her parents, specifically her mom, and to find healing elsewhere (ex: by moving to Austin, working to become a surgical nurse, creating her own kind of family) but then the epilogue is her basically being her mom. Yes she is doing it from a place of comfort and feeling close to her mom but to spend so much of her life doing everything to avoid a stripper pole and drugs, to then find the only therapy that works is ketamine and pole dancing classes… it feels like she went on this whole journey to end up exactly where she would have if she hadn’t done all that hard work.
I don’t think that her end result should negate the work and effort she put in to being a better person. And by no means is she a sex worker for the money to be spent on addiction and neglecting her child - i want to make it clear she is different from her mom in those ways. It just feels like fate/destiny is a at play here more than her hard work. Which then begs the question, if life is going to have a predetermined outcome for you anyways, why would you go through the effort of making the hard choices to have a better life?