The first time I saw this ad I cried for ten minutes.
But it wasn't the sequence with the woman being pregnant or the woman cooking with her daughter.
It was the sequence at the end, where the woman and her husband play with their grandchildren.
That is never going to be my mother and father.
It's never going to be Significant Other and me.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHcm1ec7CcY
"A Place of Greater Safety" by Hilary Mantel
18 hours ago
Oh my friend...I don't know what to say, just try to hang in there a little longer. I'm thinking of you. Fran
ReplyDeleteoh wow - that's a tear jerker. What a great advert - unless you are infertile - in which case it's a big kick in the gut.
ReplyDeleteSending hugs your way and thinking of you lots and lots.
Any progress on the counseling?
xoxoxox
it's not fair that that will never be you.
ReplyDeletehugs, illanare. i'm thinking of you.
Oh, my heart goes out to you, Illanare. What an advert...it pulls the heartstrings like a mad harp player - I have to say I just thought about the fact they were trying to sell something to soften the intensity of it. I remember watching 'Raising Arizona' and feeling similarly overwhelmed at the end, thinking about our dream of a big table filled with grandchildren. Packing up my pregnancy, birth and fertility books now for charity shops as we move house so feeling your sadness...Sending love xxxx
ReplyDeleteIt's such a hard advert for infertiles. I saw it the other day but I was doing something else at the time so I was only half aware of it. I knew what it was saying though and I remember it cut a bit of a cord with me.
ReplyDeleteI saw that advert as well and I thought, just once I'd LOVE an advertising company to depict the "perfect" circle of life NOT involving children.
ReplyDeleteBig hugs, it made me feeling like a big fat failure.