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What I didn't get

posted 13 years ago by kamaco89
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Was if he was supposedly infertile how was she supposedly pregnant at the end???
Also that's a tad bit creepy his ex adopted daughter/wife
Is in it as a child , hmmmm

Besides that I thought it was a good movie :)

[–] zetret 13 years ago

YES, the logical conclusion is that
1) The child's father should be the guy who took her to the Opera.
Holly was reluctant when her friend was asked out by that guy. She was about to cry when her friend told her that "the guy" asked her out... which wouldn't be meaningful unless there was lust involved.

2) By some miracle - after he stops being a hypochondriac, he is given that gift.

3) Woody Allen forgot he had written he was infertile.

4) He just wanted a happy ending.

[–] dreemyus 13 years ago

Being diagnosed "infertile" doesn't mean a complete lack of sperm, rather an appreciably low sperm count.

It is, indeed, possible to get someone pregnant even if you are diagnosed with a low sperm count.

Also, Allen has stated that the studio requested a more up-beat ending. So Mickey his happily ever after. While it's not probable Holly would get pregnant, it's possible.

[–] franzkabuki 13 years ago

Studio requested? I thought Stiffy was/is beyond being told what to do by any producers or moneymen - if not contractually then at least in practice?

"facts are stupid things" - Ronald Reagan

[–] Missyrocks 13 years ago

I actually always thought it was a downer ending because I thought it was a repeat of his relationship with Hannah. Wife is pregnant from in vitro, like Hannah, and he'll be the same lousy father, etc. Don't know if that's right, but I always thought it.

[–] bradford-1 11 years ago

I don't think the father could have been the artchitect; too much time had elapsed.
"May I bone your kipper, Mademoiselle?"

[–] sherm456 10 years ago

I don't think she cheated. There was no air of guilt or secretiveness when she said she was pregnant. The low-quality sperm defied the odds. To me, the pregnancy was the happy flip side to the "what do we really know" philosophy. The question had tormented him, but sometimes unexpected, baffling positive events happen, too.