Leave childhood horror behind

IS it true that the clinically insane become psychiatrists? I’m not a psychiatrist like Eli Roth’s loopy father, but I will speculate that because of his early exposure to horror, Eli, at age 35, is still a child and will never be an adult [“A Queasy-Does-It Guy,” June 3]. There is just no way his films can help anybody cope with the military nightmare we are exposed to. It has been created by damaged permanent juveniles like George W. Bush and others who live out their dreams in the real world. Only real adults can deal with this and are dealing with it while permanent juvenile Roth makes his films. Maybe, in time, we will have suitable treatment for both types, the grown-up juvenile who lives his dreams and the grown-up juvenile who films them.

GERI A. MELLGREN-KERWIN

Burbank