Angelina jolie biography book
Angelina Jolie
February 11, 2019
5 stars for Angie, 0 for the author.
Yes, Angelina is an amazing woman, and this book does draw the picture of why she is amazing, in spite of busily trying to paint another picture..
This author takes the unforgivable low road of mistaking his subject for his patient (and I don't see no Dr. in front of his name), weaving the whole book around his thin thread of how Angelina is irredeemably emotionally handicapped by her inability to really feel love. Spare me.
He even employs the tried and true In-Touch magazine move of liberally quoting "Dr. So-and-So, a psychiatrist who has not treated Angelina Jolie or any of her family", who rants on about "infants rejected by their mothers, classic inability to bond", blah blah blah gag me. Tacky!
The book has this moral overtone (or maybe it's just the droning, sometimes simpering narrator) of affected sympathy. Oh, poor little Angelina, she'll never be able to truly feel, and so she's forced to live a pallid, hopeless life collecting children of different colors and being a workaholic.
Luckily this book is pre-Brad-breakup, I shudder to think what hay he'd make out of that.
Good GRIEF, she is one of the world's most accomplished, successful, inspiring, and generous performers and business-people. She is a goddess among women because of her commitment to embracing and exploring her own sexuality, never suppressing it, until she has effectively transcended it. Without compromising or hiding her sexual wildness, she has written her own definition of herself that includes all she is, of which sexual is only a part. This is no mean feat for an actress in a world that does it's best to compartmentalize all public women, and if possible, put them into a lockable box marked "sex symbol".
Not least, she has to rise above know-it-all eejits like Andrew Morton opining about her "emotional limitations". Please. It's hard enough to pursue personal growth on the ground floor as an unknown prole, but to do so bravely, publicly, and without shame for being exactly who she is and where she is, even when it's messy, on the spotlit pinnacle of fame her entire life?. She has struggled with challenge and adversity, addiction and prejudice, and she consistently overcomes with devotion, ambition, and passion.
So, Angelina is amazing, more amazing than I knew before reading this book, and now I have some reasons why I've always liked her so much, thanks to this book (grudgingly). As for the book, one gets the impression that Angie's story glows through it despite the best effort of the author to reduce her to something small and dismissable. Just like she glows through the screen. I'm sure she will continue to surprise and inspire.
Yes, Angelina is an amazing woman, and this book does draw the picture of why she is amazing, in spite of busily trying to paint another picture..
This author takes the unforgivable low road of mistaking his subject for his patient (and I don't see no Dr. in front of his name), weaving the whole book around his thin thread of how Angelina is irredeemably emotionally handicapped by her inability to really feel love. Spare me.
He even employs the tried and true In-Touch magazine move of liberally quoting "Dr. So-and-So, a psychiatrist who has not treated Angelina Jolie or any of her family", who rants on about "infants rejected by their mothers, classic inability to bond", blah blah blah gag me. Tacky!
The book has this moral overtone (or maybe it's just the droning, sometimes simpering narrator) of affected sympathy. Oh, poor little Angelina, she'll never be able to truly feel, and so she's forced to live a pallid, hopeless life collecting children of different colors and being a workaholic.
Luckily this book is pre-Brad-breakup, I shudder to think what hay he'd make out of that.
Good GRIEF, she is one of the world's most accomplished, successful, inspiring, and generous performers and business-people. She is a goddess among women because of her commitment to embracing and exploring her own sexuality, never suppressing it, until she has effectively transcended it. Without compromising or hiding her sexual wildness, she has written her own definition of herself that includes all she is, of which sexual is only a part. This is no mean feat for an actress in a world that does it's best to compartmentalize all public women, and if possible, put them into a lockable box marked "sex symbol".
Not least, she has to rise above know-it-all eejits like Andrew Morton opining about her "emotional limitations". Please. It's hard enough to pursue personal growth on the ground floor as an unknown prole, but to do so bravely, publicly, and without shame for being exactly who she is and where she is, even when it's messy, on the spotlit pinnacle of fame her entire life?. She has struggled with challenge and adversity, addiction and prejudice, and she consistently overcomes with devotion, ambition, and passion.
So, Angelina is amazing, more amazing than I knew before reading this book, and now I have some reasons why I've always liked her so much, thanks to this book (grudgingly). As for the book, one gets the impression that Angie's story glows through it despite the best effort of the author to reduce her to something small and dismissable. Just like she glows through the screen. I'm sure she will continue to surprise and inspire.
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