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Originally Posted by !@#$%!
you don't think she realizes? and he realizes, with his stupid skateboard accident?
about the reprehensible people, they are all fucked up (it's suburbia, after all), but if you don't see them having an awakening you missed the last 15 minutes of the movie, the madame bovary references, the whole skateboarding subplot, etc. it's all there!
it's not just an obviously telegraphed hollywood ending where everyone is happy in the end-- it dangles the characters over the abyss and pulls them back without rubbing in the "message" with preachy lines from the author or by explaining the moral of the story like, ugh, sex and the city or greys anatomy or forrest gum (life is like a box of chocolates... sometimes you get your fingers dirty... sometimes it's not chocolate but poo...) -- you know what i mean.
and yes it's filmed beautifully with great pacing etc but i SWEAH the story was there! it was there! the characters CHANGE!
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if by change you mean they decide to stay exactly as they were when the movie began!!!!!!!!!!
shiiiiit.
it seemed like three different movies.
and while I LOVE kate winslet and her body naked, I have yet to see any movie where a sex scene actually carried the plot forward, instead of being just a time killer, until the next plot point can be brought about after the sex scene.