I found this movie an excellent exercise in the study of the child psyche and how it develops into the adult psyche. It really jogged my memory and got me thinking. It is interesting how much of our lives (or at least mine) is built around forgetting our failures in the past and proving to our present selves that those failures do not amount to our selfworth. And the saddest part about it is if that's how we look at it then we've already lost. By employing those safeguards against the past we are accepting that those events are what define our worth. (spoiler)Only when Russ(Bruce Willis) stopped defining who he was by acting against who he used to be could he actually realize the root of the problem. His own self worth. And he remedied that by accepting who he was instead of trying to prove he was better than himself. A powerful lesson I think all of us(or at least I know I) could benefit from.
