“It is a film that valorizes the abnegation of moral responsibility, and the poise and precision of its craft draws us into a willing suspension of our instinctive sense of what is life-affirming and good.”
“You lose yourself in it so much you find yourself creating scenarios to fit the songs from your own experiences, you alter the past and indulge in power fantasies of abnegation and collapse.”
“While Alice's suicide may be seen as an act of emotional weakness or an act of familial abnegation, it is not.”
abnegator
(rare) One who abnegates, denies, or rejects. [From Mid 17th century.]
