When darkness fell

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Aaron has three possible sources of support, and he loses each of them, one by one. </div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <IMG SRC="b9f6c0a0.gif" border=0 width="620" height="10" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> The first is his psychiatrist, whom he's been seeing for seven years. Granted, the therapy - at least what we see of it - is worse than useless, but at least it's given him a place he can go and let out his hyperkinetic, little boy side. There's a glimpse of that in this first pic.  </div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="c0220c30.jpg" border=0 width="800" height="451" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> But with everything he's facing, this is the moment she chooses to tell him "You don't need a psychiatrist" (code for "I'm not going to see you any more") and send him out the door with a prescription for sleeping pills. The following caps show his reaction. </div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="c0420c20.jpg" border=0 width="800" height="450" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="c0620c00.jpg" border=0 width="800" height="448" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="c0820c00.jpg" border=0 width="800" height="448" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <bR> <div> After he's transformed himself, he looks to George and Dixon for support and recognition of his new self, and doesn't get it. He walks out the door. </div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="be320c10.jpg" border=0 width="800" height="449" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> Then, in what's clearly a last resort, he tries to contact his family. This is the one scene in this part of the movie where I think we see Aaron as Aaron. Because the person on the other end of the phone can't see him, he doesn't have to force himself into his newly chosen mold. Volumes could be written about the dynamics of this phone call and possible backstories for it. My primary thought is how something as haphazard as who happens to pick up the receiver can change the outcome of someone's life. Would things have been different if Aaron's mother had answered the phone instead of his sister? </div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="be120bf0.jpg" border=0 width="800" height="447" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="be520c20.jpg" border=0 width="800" height="450" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="be720c20.jpg" border=0 width="800" height="450" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="be920c30.jpg" border=0 width="800" height="451" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="beb20c30.jpg" border=0 width="800" height="451" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="bed20c20.jpg" border=0 width="800" height="450" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <IMG SRC="b9f6c0a0.gif" border=0 width="620" height="10" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="132" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 66 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="id112_m.htm" TITLE="When darkness fell"><U><IMG SRC="1647d3c0.jpg" border=0 width="125" height="60" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 71 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="id108.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="He flew away"><U><IMG SRC="1657d3c0.jpg" border=0 width="125" height="60" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 66 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="id111.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Whats becoming of the children?"><U><IMG SRC="3e17d3c0.jpg" border=0 width="125" height="60" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>