![]() ![]() ![]() John Claypool points to Alice Miller’s work when he speaks of the fact that most of us are prisoners of our childhood. ![]() ![]() While at the theatre, a woman two rows away would wave her hands in the air, like in a revival meeting, when something was said that she identified with. We learn that Vivi’s own childhood included a domineering mother who thought poorly of her child and forever mourned the loss of her one true love during World War II.Īll of this is supposed to help Sidda rethink her views of her mother and recognize her as being wounded as well.Īs a man, I found it hard to appreciate much of what “Ya-Ya” is about. The film proceeds through flashbacks revealing Vivi’s life growing up. They do this is by sharing their secret lives as the Ya-Ya Sisterhood. Vivi’s girlfriends, Teensy, Caro and Necie-Ya-Ya Sisterhood-decide to do an intervention with Sidda and show her the real Vivi. Vivi, Sidda’s mother, reads of her daughter’s revelation in the magazine and goes into what some Southerners would call a “hissy” fit. In an interview with Time magazine Sidda reveals her troubled childhood growing up in Louisiana. It presents Sidda Lee Walker, an accomplished playwright whose play has finally hit Broadway. Based on the best-selling Rebecca Wells novel, “The Divine Secrets of Ya-Ya Sisterhood” is a southern tale of family life. ![]()
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