Stories We Tell
This morning I told my partner Haoie my characterisation of a relative I no longer have any meaningful relationship with, if I ever did. The story came with its low points, of course, to say he's a bit of a shithead would put it lightly, but it also came with its humour. There's almost always a bit of comedy to our stories of our family; each person has a unique relationship with their relatives and a different version of events. After all, we were all standing in different places when my grandmother backed her car into a parked Jaguar that she failed to see in the rearview mirror. We were all in different stages of life and probably had different feelings about this incident, which we expressed differently. What happened next, I'll keep to myself, because it casts an even worse light on the aforementioned relative above. Like me, Sarah Polley seems to be obsessed with stories and how we tell them. I have seen her recent work, Women Talking (2022) , where she uses her f
