Ernest Hemingway's eldest son, Jack Hemingway, had three daughters. The idea of the Jacks naming their daughters is more special. The second daughter's name was Margot because the night her mother became pregnant with her, the Jacks and their wife drank a red wine from Margo Castle and almost got drunk. So Jack decided to name their second daughter after the wine. When Margo grew up, she reduced Margo to Margot herself.
Margo's sister is called Mariele because when their father and grandfather lived in Cuba, they enjoyed fishing in the port of Mariel. Marie also grew up and simplified Mariele herself. Both sisters felt that the name their father gave them was not beautiful and strange. Margot had been at the knee of her grandfather, Ernest Hemingway, but shortly before her sister was born, the elder Hemingway had just blasted himself out with the double-barreled shotgun.
Born in 1954, Margot made her debut film The Lips of The Lips, an experimental film of rape, sex and violence, and her later film Fatal Temptation, which has been called "a masterpiece of cult cinema". Margot's performance in the film was criticized for being blunt, but her own sister, 14-year-old Marie, who also played her sister in the film, was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Newcomer.
Both sisters are about 1.8 meters tall and have stepped into the entertainment circle of the show business. But in the field of film, the younger sister Mariel's achievements are greater than her sister's. Although her sister Margot also made several films later, she obviously did not shine as well on the screen as on the T-stage. She was not only the cover girl chased by fashion newspapers, but also appeared on the cover of Time magazine and was known as the "New Beauty of America". At the same time, she was also the first supermodel to sign a million-dollar contract to act as a spokesperson for the product.
In 1984, after being injured in a skiing accident, she had to rest for a while. It was during this time that she suffered from depression. In 1987, she tried to make a comeback, but it was difficult to see improvement. She began shooting Playboy covers, small-budget semi-pornographic films, and even selling autographed nudes of herself to pornographic magazines.
Margo's intermittent episodes of depression and mania, or quarrels with people, or crying when she sees people, have a tense relationship with anyone. She and her birth mother never met, and in 1990 accused her godfather of sexually assaulting her when she was young. Her father and stepmother thought it was an authentic lie and refused to speak to her.
On July 1, 1996, the day before her grandfather Hemingway committed suicide with a gun 35 years ago, Margot was found dead in her Santa Monica apartment. While her family struggled to accept it, an official los Angeles autopsy showed she died of an overdose of phenobarbital, concluding suicide. Years later, her sister Maryle still couldn't believe her sister would commit suicide.
In fact, Margot was not the second person in the family to commit suicide. Her great-grandfather died by suicide, and five years after her grandfather Hemingway raised a gun to commit suicide, her aunt, Hemingway's own sister, committed suicide by taking medication due to depression. In 1982, her grandfather, Hemingway's only younger brother, Lester, also shot himself after learning that he was going to have his leg amputated due to diabetes. Margo's own sister, after years of mental illness, committed suicide in a mental hospital.
In addition to suicide and mental illness, perhaps the Hemingway family also had a gene for alcoholism. Of the 6 people who committed suicide, none of them were drunk. Family members who did not commit suicide, such as Margot's own father, Jack, were also often drunk. Margot grew up remembering that her parents always held a bottle of wine alone at night and drank their own wine. When you are drunk, you quarrel, and when you are more drunk, you fight.
Because many members of the family do not have a good death, even those who barely die well, they are also suffering from diseases before they die, and there seem to be few who can live happily and happily for a lifetime, so Americans call this phenomenon "Hemingway's curse". In the Hemingway family, the only people who were not knocked down by this spell were Hemingway's young granddaughter, Margot's sister Mariele.
Marie became famous, and her first film "The Robbery of the Lips" earned her a Golden Globe Nomination for Best Newcomer. In 1979, at the age of 18, she was invited by Woody Allen to star in Manhattan, playing Woody's high school lover, for which she was nominated for an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress the following year. Her later films, the style is obvious, the controversy is very large, but in terms of her personal acting skills and influence, it is not as good as the first two.
Marie, who grew up in the shadow of her great-grandfather, her grandfather's suicide, and her parents' alcoholism and disagreement, experienced the poisoning suicide of her two sisters. Not only that, two days after her father's death, her husband was diagnosed with a brain tumor again. The tough and strong Marie, while taking care of her husband and raising her two daughters, writes and practices yoga. Her goal in life is to break the "Hemingway Curse" and live well with her family.
At her insistence, her husband, who had major brain surgery, miraculously recovered. What she gave to her two daughters was also a sunny and healthy life, far happier than her and her sister's childhood and adolescence. Marelle's positivity and fortitude touched Americans, and in 2003, she appeared on the cover of People magazine. Her story injects new content into the Hemingway family.
In 2013, "Escape from Madness" was screened by Barbara Cooper, the queen of documentaries and a two-time Oscar-winning long documentary filmmaker. In the film, Mariel starred in the true colors, telling the history of suicide, abuse of medicine and mental illness in a chronological manner. Tear apart the wounds and tragedies of his own family in order to warn the world. Marelle's bravery earned her the Humanitarian Award at the San Diego Independent Film Festival that year.