The most memorable scene, for me anyways, in Nip/Tuck is where Mrs. Grubman, the socialite addicted to plastic surgery, is in Dr. Christian Troy’s office begging him to do yet another surgery after her death to make her more presentable during her funeral. Dr. Troy says her self-hatred compelled her to seek a false self-worth from her hundreds of surgeries, which resulted in missing her own life. In other words, Mrs. Grubman, like all of us, is allotted X amount of years on this planet, her life, if you will, and hers passed her by unlived.
Dr. Troy’s critique reminds me of
something Franz Kafka wrote: The fear of death is the result of self-betrayal,
the result of an unlived life.
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