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A review by mikolee
Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory by Sarah Polley
3.0
Prompted to read this book after reading an essay in the Guardian based on the author’s childhood experiences starring in Terry Gilliam’s Adventures of Baron Munchausen.
This series of personal essays by the multitalented writer/director/actor Sarah Polley is really thoughtful. We hear her insights and trauma of being a child actor, some of Canadian Me Too movement, the challenges of motherhood and dealing with overcoming a head injury.
I have appreciated much of her work as an actor and writer. Her film Away From Her offered such insight into Alzheimer’s. She created that at such a young age and the book shed a bit of light on her experience with family and dementia.
I appreciated how she talked of the craft of story without being self important as many artist autobiographical works tend to be.
This series of personal essays by the multitalented writer/director/actor Sarah Polley is really thoughtful. We hear her insights and trauma of being a child actor, some of Canadian Me Too movement, the challenges of motherhood and dealing with overcoming a head injury.
I have appreciated much of her work as an actor and writer. Her film Away From Her offered such insight into Alzheimer’s. She created that at such a young age and the book shed a bit of light on her experience with family and dementia.
I appreciated how she talked of the craft of story without being self important as many artist autobiographical works tend to be.