The Beales of Grey Gardens

Here’s hoping that by this point next year, things will be much better than they are. Good riddance 2025.

Here’s hoping that by this point next year, things will be much better than they are. Good riddance 2025.

It’s more Grey Gardens

It’s more Grey Gardens

I could hear Edie talking every single day of my entire life.
Edie is sadly fascinating, a woman who lives in her past, who dreams about the future she could have had. A woman who, even without money for new clothes, could create enchanting outfits. And a woman who, even after “losing” her big opportunity, never let go of her dreams of becoming free.

I could hear Edie talking every single day of my entire life.
Edie is sadly fascinating, a woman who lives in her past, who dreams about the future she could have had. A woman who, even without money for new clothes, could create enchanting outfits. And a woman who, even after “losing” her big opportunity, never let go of her dreams of becoming free.

The ending of The Bealed of Grey Gardens would have been perfect as the finale of the original film. It pissed me off, especially because that was the one element of this film that actually enticed some sort of conversation and emablance of the thought-provoking Grey Gardens. While this film did contain a bunch of the stuff I liked from the first, mainly the conversations between Edith and Little Edie, but there is nothing that justified the reason to return to this story. They didn't elaborate on anything from the original and felt like a supplement or deleted scenes complication. I honestly didn't expect anything else though.

The ending of The Bealed of Grey Gardens would have been perfect as the finale of the original film. It pissed me off, especially because that was the one element of this film that actually enticed some sort of conversation and emablance of the thought-provoking Grey Gardens. While this film did contain a bunch of the stuff I liked from the first, mainly the conversations between Edith and Little Edie, but there is nothing that justified the reason to return to this story. They didn't elaborate on anything from the original and felt like a supplement or deleted scenes complication. I honestly didn't expect anything else though.

If you finished Grey Gardens and were left wanting for more of Little Edie's rambling, complaining, singing, dancing, and pseudo-philosophy, here is another 90 minutes. It's a bunch of longer scenes of just Little Edie talking and being weird. As a staunch member of team Big Edie, I was hoping for more of her, but she's barely in this one. This is mostly just Little Edie with her hypocritical speeches about how her mother isn't a good Catholic, while she's the on that talks about astrology and brings in a palm reader, and her pretending to be deep. She spends ten minutes explaining that we shouldn't be sending good soldiers to war, but should be filling our troops with invalids. She gives us a long diatribe showing how little she understands politics. We get a lengthy list montage of her "unique" fashion choices. I loved seeing Big and Little Edie's sick dynamic, but the more time we spend with just Little Edie, the more she gets on my nerves. She's insufferable and without having Big Edie to balance things out, this is almost exclusively Little Edie bitching and rambling on thinking she's saying the most profound and philosophical things, when really she's just talking out of her ass about things she knows nothing about. It's obvious that this is just a collection of bonus footage fused together; there is nothing connecting these clips. I didn't really need more than that, but I really did need more Big Edie and a lot less of Little Edie talking to us through a window.

If you finished Grey Gardens and were left wanting for more of Little Edie's rambling, complaining, singing, dancing, and pseudo-philosophy, here is another 90 minutes. It's a bunch of longer scenes of just Little Edie talking and being weird. As a staunch member of team Big Edie, I was hoping for more of her, but she's barely in this one. This is mostly just Little Edie with her hypocritical speeches about how her mother isn't a good Catholic, while she's the on that talks about astrology and brings in a palm reader, and her pretending to be deep. She spends ten minutes explaining that we shouldn't be sending good soldiers to war, but should be filling our troops with invalids. She gives us a long diatribe showing how little she understands politics. We get a lengthy list montage of her "unique" fashion choices. I loved seeing Big and Little Edie's sick dynamic, but the more time we spend with just Little Edie, the more she gets on my nerves. She's insufferable and without having Big Edie to balance things out, this is almost exclusively Little Edie bitching and rambling on thinking she's saying the most profound and philosophical things, when really she's just talking out of her ass about things she knows nothing about. It's obvious that this is just a collection of bonus footage fused together; there is nothing connecting these clips. I didn't really need more than that, but I really did need more Big Edie and a lot less of Little Edie talking to us through a window.