Great Booth performance but what a DISMAL movie
I'd rather watch movies that leave me feeling uplifted instead of like looking for Doc's bottle.
shareI find it interesting how many people have found this movie depressing. I, on the other hand, was left with a feeling of joy at the end of the film. After twenty years of hanging onto the past, Lola finally realizes that she needs to move forward, that Little Sheba isn't coming home (I can only paraphrase). To me, that means there is always hope.
While Doc battled alcoholism, they stayed together, and she loved him. He loved her, to me evident by his tremendous patience and gentleness with her, when he wasn't drinking.
We all have demons. If we don't face them as they arise, they don't go away, they just get bigger and uglier, which is what happened to Lola and Doc. BUT, they finally DID each face their own ugliness and decide to move forward instead of holding onto that ugliness. Demons we know, even though they break us, can be more comforting than what we do not know.
To me this film ended happily, which surprised me. Perhaps I see this film as happy because of where I am in my life. I think we all see everything colored by our own perspective, right? I am sorry if I sound pompous, I surely don't mean to be. I too didn't feel happy throughout the film, of course, but the ending did give me a great deal of hope.
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The movies in the last decade or two have been besmirched by the loathesome 'feel good' idiotic romantic comedies, with cute young people getting up to all kinds of comical situations till they realize they are meant for each other. Applause. Fade out, live happily ever after. This is nothing more than pandering to silly romantic females, a kind of pornography for a certain kind of female. Wishful thinking! Fairy tales! When confronted with real life, some turn away in horror, running metaphorically screaming in distress. I would say, grow up, but it isn't the fashion to be grown up any more in our current state. It's not a feel-good happy movie, and why should it be? But it's realistic, and though Doc doesn't get a young girlfriend and Lola's dog doesn't come back, they still have each other! To spend the rest of their lives together, there is some comfort, security, and possible happiness. Sometimes that's all you can hope for.
shareI feel GREAT having come to the realization, after those treacherous and treacly teen years, that life is complicated, messy, "icky," funny, repulsive, and so boundlessly joyful. Let's see, life is, well,...everything that a Hugh Grant movie from the 90's isn't. THERE ARE ONLY TEMPORARY HAPPY ENDINGS, and then life goes on, and that's the way life should be too.
I do not WANT a silly "feel good" movie, because something like that is a lie and being lied to gives me a feeling of being cheated and thought of as part of an idiot mass. There are few watchable comedies out there today, and not many of them are coming from Hollywood. I appreciate independent film. I wish there was more backing for the indie film artists, because they deliver marvelous works more frequently and what comedies - they actually make me laugh. As for romance, give me the 20's and 30's any day. They had Garbo and John Gilbert.
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