Both of us have 25th college reunions fast approaching. “It’s more of an opportunity to be with YOU GUYS who I don’t see nearly enough,” wrote one of her college friends. ‘I killed the president of Paraguay with a fork’?” asks the postgrad assassin played by John Cusack in the 1997 dark comedy movie Grosse Pointe Blank, as he contemplates attending his own 10-year high school reunion. In 1983’s The Big Chill, the occasion for a reunion of far-flung college friends is the death of the most winning member of their clique by suicide. What if the fact that we already know what everyone’s up to is the reason we absolutely must go to our reunions?

Source: The Guardian May 20, 2024 22:05 UTC