"Just be yourself!! Be yourself! C'mon... Be happy..."
If you were her, wouldn't you go crazy too?
Such a cutting and universal portrait of family life that feels so personal to Cassavetes while also capturing emotions and relationships I can relate to half a century later. The cyclical nature of familial trauma is shown through the visual language of the movie in so many interesting ways: Nick repeatedly dragging the kids upstairs, Mabel forgetting things from just moments ago, scenes…