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Spanglish

The movie. Deborah Clasky: Played by Téa Leoni.
I think she did a great job with a tough part. The character's manipulation of other family characters (while appearing oblivious to repercussions) was hard to portray and sometimes felt exaggerated but was mostly understandable. Few things in life are as obvious as some of the character stunts pulled in the movie but many can be just as disruptive.
In fact, just after the movie, I was treated to a real life "it's all about me and your views don't occur to me in my world" altercation over a bottle of water. Sure, there are two sides to every story but no matter how hard you try two people can't see the same thing when looking at something at the same time. The point of view is always slightly different. Nothing more and nothing less than "different".

posted by Kev @ 12/25/2004 11:00:00 PM