Chandler’s Trailers: “The Guilt Trip” (2012)

     If there is a gap of attitudinal understanding (more like a chasm if Hollywood is to be believed) between parents and their adult children, one must wonder what influence the movies have played in both defining and enthusiastically championing such generational rifts. Certainly the parent was traditionally seen as the ultimate harbinger of wisdom and guidance during the Production Code era, where the Biblical Commandment “Honor Thy Mother and Father” was scrupulously adhered to in spirit-  with the novelty exception of comically inclined [the “Blondie” series] portrayals or portraits of exaggerated familial eccentricity [“You Can’t Take It With You”]  -whereas in more contemporary times (no doubt given the illusion of credibility by an accelerated tendency toward unrelenting parental incompetence tolerated by far more clever [read: unconscionably bratty one-liner machines] progeny on television sitcoms) an antithetical antagonism has become the media depicted norm. More often than not, contrivance is the rule of the day in order to maintain and perpetuate this insulting model of ageist disfunction which presumes that anyone of a later generation must be a doddering idiot unequipped with the slightest filter for creating embarrassing public interactions.

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