And sometimes, the price of success is just too high it is not uncommon for someone to follow through and pay the price, and then reject the result. Once an activity is known from the inside, it bears little resemblance to how it appeared to the uninitiated from the outside. Sometimes it's even necessary to go through the whole thing and get to the top before it is possible to know. Often enough, the only real way for people to know if something is right for them is to try it out. I can't agree with her speech at the end of the movie, though, about quitters. The old tough-as-nails grandmother has some serious wisdom to share when she tells Janet Gaynor's character that every achievement comes at a price, and requires sacrifice. It takes a great deal of strength-and the absence of any illusions-to flourish and to keep one's sanity in it. One of the things that is not underplayed is how it uses up many of the people who come to work in it, and what becomes of them once it has (please pass the tissues, there, Karen). From all I've seen and heard, this movie portrays a reasonable facsimile of the industry as it actually is-in fact, it underplays some aspects. And, of course, the industry and its members are always in the news. My father worked in the motion picture industry.
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