If at first you don’t succeed, fail, fail again
“What makes the work so haunting is that no matter how piercing each man’s understanding of his own failings, there’s an equal awareness that maturity, sobriety or experience would never have enabled them to act differently.
‘Don’t ever try to work anything out,’ says Dermot. ‘Because you don’t know — and you never will.’”
(Port Authority review from Variety)
In my younger days I probably would’ve agreed with Dermot. Not anymore.
