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An old woman dies a slow, painful, claustrophobic death forgotten about by everyone but her 70 year-old daughter. finally, the old woman dies. I film them as they suffer together, as they suffer alone, as they make each other suffer, as they make me suffer, as I make them suffer while I film. I, the grandson, the son, the filmmaker, the prodigal abyss. Me, them, us, the dimensions of a 90 year-old grandmother's cell. As the Parkinson's shuts down her circuits and I watch the lights go out, she reaches out to me but I am not there. There is nothing I can do for her, so I do nothing. I film, I help her piss, I do not feel. I do not react. Or rather, I only react, I take no action. she is growing numb, soon she will be as numb as I am. It is all very hilarious.

Crazy Like They Are is the story of an American family, when the filmmaker's grandmother, Elizabeth Grossklaus, comes to live with his mother, Sharon Pearson, for the last four years of her life. The obtrusive, documentary film making style casts a cold, graphic eye on the aging process and shows the filmmaker/grandson to be ambivalent about those he should hold most dear. the story deals with the psychological patterns that had developed among the three of them over the course of life and their impact on their lives as Elizabeth's draws to a close. The film is a poignant examination of the sacrifices that we make for each other and the lack of deep, personal connections that sometimes cripple our attempts at intimacy. Crazy Like They Are depicts the decline of two people. Elizabeth deteriorates physically with illness and age while Cameron falls into a lifestyle of immature self-involvement and narcissistic delusions. Finally attempting to redeem himself through his art. Will cinema be powerful enough to overcome years of emotional separation and spiritual neglect?

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