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Excellent Movie, But.....


[b] Liked the movie very much, but I just can't understand why Jules stuck with her, and why Jim kept going back to her. She was obviously very selfish, narcissistic and unstable. Maybe it was a French thing. lol

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Maybe it was a French thing

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if american they would have "quite frankly not give a damn" [after 10 years or so]

ask yourself did Adam leave Eve when she pulled the same gig?

http://www.kindleflippages.com/ablog/

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No, I don't think Adam would have left Eve: what alternative did he have? :0)

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yes, and so it is with God - oops wrong movie

the key to understanding this is the boys come to the conclusion, but too late, that they CREATED her

now they have to "repent at leisure" as saying goes

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the key to understanding this is the boys come to the conclusion, but too late, that they CREATED her

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OMG I just realized that in fact Adam ALSO created Eve [from his rib-bone was it?] so he really felt the same responsibility for her actions as the boys did for Catherine.

http://www.kindleflippages.com/ablog/

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