![]() ![]() ![]() Margaret doubles-down on her vigilance over Abbie, and begins a stalking campaign. He was at a conference, he was sitting in a park. But he then cracks a huge smile at her, the smile of a true maniac, and you can see the nastiness underneath, the nastiness tying them together. It seems, at first, he doesn't know who she is. Margaret fled David soon after they got together, but the damage was more than done. Margaret has never told the story out loud before.) (The monologue, and Hall's performance of it, called to mind Bibi Andersson's similar monologue about the boys on the beach in " Persona," not in the particulars, but in its personality-destabilizing revelations. The word "sadist" may not have applied to the young co-worker's boyfriend, but it applies to David. The relationship between David and the teenage Margaret was bad, sure, but it was bad in a sinister way, something far far out there at the limits of human experience. The details are gnarly, to say the least. Eventually, Margaret provides the details in a seven-minute monologue to the hapless young co-worker seen in the cold open. She runs all the way home and hides in the bathroom, crooking her elbow over her mouth to muffle her sobs. ![]() The film gives no backstory before David arrives (although the clues are there in Margaret's hyper-vigilant personality), and so all we see is Margaret suddenly fleeing the conference, in a total fight-or-flight panic. ![]() This, we find out, is David (Tim Roth), whom she hasn't seen in two decades. Jim Williams' urgent score, all chopping alarmist strings, makes every moment into an incipient life-or-death catastrophe, and for Margaret, it is.Īt a conference, Margaret gets a side glimpse of a man in attendance. She runs like she's chasing someone, she runs like she's trying to beat the clock. Margaret has a friends-with-benefits situation (sans the "friends" part) with a married co-worker ( Michael Esper), and takes a daily run that looks more like a military maneuver than requisite exercise. To say Margaret is an over-protective mother of her 17-year-old daughter Abbie ( Grace Kaufman) is to completely understate the situation: Margaret hovers, worries, clings, and Abbie, about to leave for college, feels suffocated. Everything Margaret does, she does intensely. One of his favorite hobbies was pitching in many different softball leagues, he also loved to collect antiques, tinker with electronics and enjoyed anything Elvis.Ĭelebration of Life, Monday, 9/19, 4-7PM, with sharing of memories at 6PM Evans-Nordby Funeral Home, 6000 Brooklyn Blvd., Brooklyn Center.Margaret has a high-powered job in the biotech industry, where she presents Power Point documents on replacement therapy and "cell membrane re-organizing," a metaphorical career if ever there was one. Bob was a loving, thoughtful, caring person with a great sense of humor he also had a huge heart and was always willing to lend a helping hand to anyone that asked. He looked forward to coffee time on Saturday mornings with his family. He enjoyed spending time with his grandchildren, lawn work and his black lab Angie. Survived by children Jennifer, Robert Jr., Andrew and Jacob Cage mother Rose sister Joann (Terry) Geisler grandchildren Stephen, Bianca, Riley, Hailey, Amelia, Olivia and Emilee nieces, nephews and many other loving relative & friends.īob was active in the Osseo Lions and part of ISD 279. Preceded in death by father James, brother Lynn and sister Laura. ![]()
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