tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481549185308465110.post9204128589945538790..comments2024-03-08T04:06:20.301-05:00Comments on TrustMovies: HAPPINESS RUNS -- for its life -- in Adam Sherman's based-on-truth taleTrustMovieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01130460547029155342noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481549185308465110.post-65888007894523497872013-09-29T23:00:02.241-04:002013-09-29T23:00:02.241-04:00Thanks, Isabella, for both your comments. To set y...Thanks, Isabella, for both your comments. To set your mind at ease, I did not believe everything (or much of anything) I saw in this movie, as I think my review will substantiate. Perhaps my headline and the use of the phrase "based-on-truth" confuses the issue. (Headlines must fit into the two-to-three lines given them, so sometimes I choose words or phrases that may be not quite right.<br /><br />In any case, I appreciate your taking the time to set me straight.TrustMovieshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01130460547029155342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481549185308465110.post-68915601688797181292013-09-29T15:06:39.308-04:002013-09-29T15:06:39.308-04:00This is not a true picture of the community in whi...This is not a true picture of the community in which Adam grew up. I wish he would make this more clear.<br />For a better picture of the place-- see the brief but more true to life Part III of Freedom and Unity, The Vermont Movie, which is just coming out now. Part III is about many issues including communes and communities. There is also a Wikipedia entry on Quarry Hill Creative Center. Please don't believe everything every p.o.'d kid creates. Adam is a good person, but he grew up with a lot of money which mo one else had-- except that which his mother shared with the community. Is that why he is angry?Isabella Fiske McFarlinhttp://www.quarryhillcreativecenter.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481549185308465110.post-81308206921142316102013-09-29T15:02:11.198-04:002013-09-29T15:02:11.198-04:00PLEASE do not believe everything you see in this m...PLEASE do not believe everything you see in this movie. The director was raised in a community in Vermont in which children were loved and honored; no one is perfect, but we tried to keep them happy by playing with them in four hour shifts. And their parents were generally very loving and devoted too. It was absolutely forbidden to harm animals. NO COWS WERE EVER TORCHED. Please believe me. We are still here, in a slightly different form, and the two rules on the place are NO HITTING KIDS and NO KILLING ANIMALS.<br />So please-- do not take it all seriously. Adam does have anger issues, and he may be right about some stuff but surely not about that.Isabella Fiske McFarlinhttp://www.quarryhillcreativecenter.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481549185308465110.post-82143076424799165852012-01-08T10:43:53.818-05:002012-01-08T10:43:53.818-05:00Thanks for the comment, J.C. I did not grow up, a...Thanks for the comment, J.C. I did not grow up, as you did, in the counter-cultural era, as I was already a young adult by then. But the movie, as you can tell from my review, struck me as false as it did you. <br /><br />I hope your own particular struggle grows easier, or at least more rewarding, eventually. I think kids from hippie parents really do struggle for the "normality" that often comes more easily to kids of mainstream parents. But you probably are the beneficiary of at least a few good things that you would not possess, had you come from "normal" parents. Just guessing. None of us can have everything, and all parents make mistakes. And then their kids try to avoid those particular mistakes, while making new ones of their own. Life -- and parenting -- are tricky, no? (And I say that as a parent of a wonderful daughter who is trying to avoid, with her own children, some of the mistakes I made with her.)TrustMovieshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01130460547029155342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481549185308465110.post-72505205997243182412012-01-08T02:01:30.198-05:002012-01-08T02:01:30.198-05:00We just watched this movie, and I did grow-up in t...We just watched this movie, and I did grow-up in the counter-culture in the era that this is supposedly set in.<br /><br />It rang very untrue to life and seemed more like a typical "drugs are bad; parents are bad and so kids do drugs" films of which there are way too many. I found it to be very moralistic and didactic. The parents in the movie would never have used the word 'druggie' our parents did more drugs than we did and were into altered states of consciousness---that is why they were there in the first place.<br /><br />Also some of the details are way too close to David's of http://www.exfamily.org/index.htm, I was hoping to see a movie that truly reflected what the kids of the hippies experienced, our lives were not easy, to this day I struggle with some of the experiences and relating to others with more conventional parents. <br /><br />I found the drug use esp. to be so inaccurate it was like a movie about drugs by someone who never did them. I actually feel insulted by the movie. <br /><br />J.C.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481549185308465110.post-60394278783987493692010-10-30T08:30:02.088-04:002010-10-30T08:30:02.088-04:00Thanks, A.C. I did try that meditation, but, gosh...Thanks, A.C. I did try that meditation, but, gosh, the movie still sucks. Happiness Runs didn't make me angry, by the way, just sad -- for the several opportunities that it wasted.TrustMovieshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01130460547029155342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481549185308465110.post-19142441294717529262010-10-29T19:25:52.713-04:002010-10-29T19:25:52.713-04:00It is obvious that the person that wrote this revi...It is obvious that the person that wrote this review has anger issues and no critical thinking skills. Try some meditation pal.A.Cnoreply@blogger.com