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 There’s a moment at the end of the movie Tender Mercies where Mac Sledge, a washed up country singer, learns about the death of his troubled teen-age daughter
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Good Grief...Even at Work
By D’Arcy Fallon
© Springs Magazine, January 2002
There’s a moment at the end of the movie Tender Mercies where Mac Sledge, a washed up
country singer, learns about the death of his troubled teen-age daughter, whom he didn’t
get to see grow up. His daughter is a casualty, along with divorce and a ruined career,
of Mac’s boozing. When Mac makes friends with a young widow and her son, Sonny,... ..."I never did trust happiness very much," Mac Sledge says after his daughter’s
death It’s a deeply resonant line that confirms our deepest fears: At that moment
when happiness seems most attainable, the other shoe is going to drop. I used to
weep when I watched Tender Mercies until my husband pointed out the movie isn’t
really a downer. In the last seconds of the movie, Sonny throws a football to Mac
and he catches it. Mac throws it back to Sonny and they continue tossing it back
and forth in the harsh Texas sunlight. Life goes on. Roll the credits.
Bren... .... But his physical
presence has been replaced by his omniscient absence, if that makes any sense. Of
course, I feel his spiritual presence all the time, but there’s nothing like a
feisty argument with a teen-ager to keep you in touch with life. I miss that."
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