It reminded me a lot of the people I knew in the 1950s in Glendale, California who were poor and had no hope and would do literally anything to survive then. I was 8 to 12 years old and we lived South of Colorado Blvd then. on Belmont Street. My best friend then was a practical joker and liked to make plastic models of cars and World War II planes and take apart lawn mower engines but by high school (we had moved at 12 and we weren't friends anymore) was the main drug dealer for Glendale high school whereas I had moved to a safer school so my parents wouldn't worry about me having to join a gang (The khaki Boys) in Roosevelt Junior High School then in 1960.
So, like the two girls (18 to 24 I would say) had better values even though one had to defend herself and made better choices. So, in this the girls reminded me of myself in that I made good choices and my parents moved to a better place that had rich and middle class people rather than poor and desperate and some lower middle class people so I had a future unlike many who have no hope and likely never will (but could if they could change the people they are around).
After watching this movie I was thoroughly spooked by realizing how close I came to not succeeding in life if my parents hadn't moved to a better class of people when they did which led to me going to college and better friends and getting married and traveling the world and owning businesses and not dying young and having a good life where I never had to kill anyone. I think that's the thing I'm proudest of in my life is that I never had to kill anyone in real life or in war or even in self defense. I remember so many lifetimes where I had to kill so many to survive even one more day. I AM so grateful this life wasn't like those ones. At least that type of PTSD I haven't had to endure this lifetime.
So, anyway I woke up really spooked at about 3 am for a few hours because this movie really resonated with me and I had to think more about what happened to me as a child that I gratefully survived and moved through to a much better life than I could have ever imagined before. I had knives at my throat with people trying to kill me more than once as a child and I'm glad that's over and I'm on to a much better life I never could even have imagined then now.
By God's Grace
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