The people who are calling Ms. Lohan's shoot the ruination of her career have got it wrong.
But Haneke keeps us off balance with glimpses of Erika's own vulnerability, and the sense of tragic ruination that her mental turmoil represents.
What's she supposed to do -- stay home wearing a T-shirt and bare feet, bemoaning the ruination of her young life?
Though she spends her career worrying about the ruination of the planet, she has always tried to shield her 11-year-old son from the worst of her fears.
Fate and divine mandate are the heroine's ruination, but they also absolve her of guilt and, by precluding any real choice, redeem her from anxiety and regret.
He was the idol of her youth and also, she has said, its ruination.
Some may ask what is the point of Goldsworthy's updating, but she places location much more at the heart of her version, accusing London itself of as much culpability in the ruination of individuals.
But I also want her to do this parenting thing well, because the alternative is the ruination of 14 children.
As it is, just as Jonathan Freedland persuasively argued in Tuesday's Guardian that we still live in "the land Maggie built", so too our modern game was hewn during her administration – despite the fact she at times appeared personally bent on its ruination.
