Marriage/Mullholland Drive Update
A few days ago, I mentioned that, for me and my new bride, sitting through Mullholland Drive had been, up to that point, the most difficult part of our three-day-old marriage. Now, six days into the experience, that's still pretty much the case.
The observation seems to have struck a chord amongst the married couples of the blogosphere, and I received several letters of support from other MD sufferers: apparently, this horrible film has been testing marriages all over the place. Most seem to have borne the adversity with admirable fortitude, emerging from the ordeal with a deeper appreciation of the startling resilience of their holy bond and of the institution of marriage itself. I haven't heard from anyone whose marriage was actually wrecked by MD, but I'm sure there at least a few. The Lifetime Channel should do a movie about it...
Anyway, the most illuminating anecdote came from Fritz Schranck of Sneaking Suspicions:
Last weekend my wife and I watched it. She picked it ,along with another movie that was good (Bread and Tulips; Italian with English subtitles).After MD ended, I turned to her and said, "Honey, I now get to pick the next seven videos."
She said, "But you sat and watched the whole thing. That has to count for something."
I said, "You're right. I get to pick the next five."
She said, "Wellll, okay."
The essence of a successful marriage is the ability to negotiate successfully over the most important things.