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You know how an interesting movie can make you want to go to Italy, or make love on a real train, or sing and dance in a high school gym? This movie makes you want to weed the garden, clean closets and rethink the placement of the giant brooch on your coshtume.

I totally agree that they were showing off for and flirting with the Maysles, although I think the exact same things would have been said, sang, and done if no one had been there - the surreal insanity of the Beales never ends. I think the saddest part of the story, for me, was the realization that Big Edie pretty much ruined Little Edie's life because she didn't want to be alone. Poor Little Edie should have been in Manhattan sharing her wonderful self with the whole world instead of in that decaying mansion being driven insane by that selfish old bitch of a mother.

This movie makes me want to fix up some corn on the cob on a hot plate in my bedroom.

It's difficult for me to decide who was the other's keeper most. Big Edie obviously needed Little Edie to be her distracted indentured servant. But if Little Edie had been free could she have survived on her own in the city? Without a mother or man to support her? Would the younger Beale have been any happier in another place? Where she was she had the sun and the sea. She could sing and dance in the middle the afternoon, in the middle in of the yard. She had ice cream whenever she wanted. She got to spend her time idly, possibly even idyllically at times (if the mess could be ignored).

Little Edie's captivity may have seemed worse to her when she realized what the Maysles Brothers were seeing.

Was Grey Gardens a (filthy) safe haven for two thrown-away women, or did its confines drive at least one of them mad?

I don't think Little Edie needed an actual physical audience for her flag-twirling because I think she always imagined someone was watching her all the time. Who knows how many fashion shows & variety numbers were performed in Grey Gardens...

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