In one of
my favorite movies, Almost Famous, there
is a mother figure who reminds me somewhat of Ursula Buendía. Elaine, the
mother in the film, is obsessed with maintaining a standard in behavior and
education, and is ridiculously disturbed when her daughter, Anita, comes home
with a Simon and Garfunkel album. Elaine argues that rock only propagates
debauchery, and shortly after Anita leaves home to be a stewardess. Elaine’s
son, William, listens to the records that his sister left, and gets really into
the music, and after a while of minor music articles, lands a gig for Rolling
Stone magazine. Here, he travels with a band called Stillwater all around the
country and experiences just about everything that his mother tried to guard him
from.
Similarly,
I think Ursula tries to keep debauchery away from the Buendía household, but
the kids of the house often go out and find it anyway. The crazy ideas, like
what William and Anita’s love for good music was for Elaine, also spread easily
throughout the family. Ursula tries to keep the wildness to a minimum for a
while, but like Elaine at the end of the movie, seems to accept that some of
these things will just happen.
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