Glenn Weldon
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5,101 appearances
50 recordings
10 series
first heard Sep 2022
last heard 10 Sep
Glenn Weldon’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Because Grey Gardens is one of those films that changes every time you see it as different aspects of you kind of chime with the movie, resonate with the movie in different ways.
I mean, the first time I saw it, it really seemed to me like the filmmakers were exploiting these women, you know, pointing the camera at them and painting them as grotesques, you know, mocking them.
Now, when I see it and I'm much closer to little Edie's age in the film, I realize how much of that kind of knee jerk impression does these women a disservice because it robs them of their, I don't want to say agency.
I never want to say agency, but just say.
Complicitness.
Their complicitness, their volition.
Well, their choices.
Yes.
Thank you.
The thing that Little Edie is consumed by is self-awareness.
These are both very self-aware women.
They are not just willing participants.
They are both performers.
Big Edie was a singer.
Little Edie was an actress and a model.
And Little Edie, especially throughout the film, is acutely aware of how she's being perceived.
She flirts with the camera.
She flirts with the mazels.
And watching it now, it's hard not to impute on her the feeling that she sees this as an opportunity, this film, as a way out.
And sometimes watching it nowadays, I get struck by what seems to me to be moments where the filmmakers, you just get this upwelling of empathy.
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