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confused

posted 18 years ago by KAnnD86
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I watched movie the other day and liked it, but I was kind of confused about what was going on. At some point, we started to see the girl's version of what happened in their relationship. The scene where said "I love you" in bed and then asked for cheesecake made sense because the second time around we got to see that she wasn't talking in her sleep but rather pretending to. But some scenes were redone completely and conversations took place in different places. I was totally confused when the fight in the outdoor cafe took place because the movie kept jumping back and forth. And then everything to do with throwing the cup confused the hell out of me. Usually when movies play with the timeline, we're able to determine what we're seeing and when it's taking place and who's telling the story, but in this movie, I just got more and more confused. I got the gist, but I think they should have been more clear.

Tomorrow's just your future yesterday!

[–] SirEdmund 17 years ago

Since we were seeing things from two points of view, some things were more important to her than to him (and vice versa).

I haven't seen it in awhile (although I have the DVD) so I can't be more specific.

"Trust in God and fear nothing"-L.A. Armistead

[–] noely_noel 16 years ago

I agree... This movie totally confused me.

[–] jschaufe 16 years ago

then you are a total moron... pay attention!

[–] ActionScaleHero 15 years ago

Quite simple...

... the story starts with Laurie hitting Dan with the cup. Then, Dan tells Nathan Lane how he and Laurie met and romanced leading up to that point.

Then, Laurie tells her friends and landlady her version of the same events leading up to that point.

Then the story gets resolved when the big TV producer comes in , the day after Laurie hit Dan with the cup.

The reason things are slightly different in each version is because it is taken from the memory/pov of the person telling it. We all know memory can be faulty.

JLT

[–] teethgrrrinder 15 years ago

it was obvious, retard

[–] KAnnD86 15 years ago

I made this post three years ago, retard. Does it make you feel good to call random people retard over the internet? Dumbass.

Tomorrow's just your future yesterday!

[–] CuddleBunny909 14 years ago

All you need to know is that there are two sides to every story :)
By the way you defend yourself from a person because you called you a retard, and then you call them a "dumbass"...nothing was learned :/

I'm intolerant to intolerance.

[–] KAnnD86 14 years ago

This thread is 4 years old.

Tomorrow's just your future yesterday!

[–] Moon_and_New_York_City 12 years ago

I thought it was pretty obvious the movie was being told from two different points of view. Hence, the title.

"the best that you can do is fall in love"

[–] gillies 12 years ago

Simple. Movie begins when their relationship is on the rocks, and she throws a cup at him during a 'point counterpoint' type of TV broadcast.

He flashes back to all his memories of how their careers together got started. He is the hero and is debonaire in every scene.

She flashes back to how it got started. There is balance here, whereas he had hallucinated about 'what's on the menu, at the restaurant' (monogamy and marriage) on the first date, she hallucinated about 'the erotic theater dance' (that they were loves dancing together on stage).

At least once she set him up to get him to ask her to dance. He never knew.
At least once she feigned sleepwalking to calm his night fright, and heard his confession of love for him. He never knew.

Then flash forward to later in the day, after the coffee cup fight, and they have a 2nd coffee cup fight at the cafe of their first date.

The movie ends 1 day after it began - with their final broadcast, not together.

[–] residentevil6901 8 years ago

This is one of the worst movies ever made, I absolutely hated it. But even I could tell what was going on, it wasn't hard to know it was told from two different perspectives. That actually made the movie even worse having to sit through it twice. Don't feel bad about being confused, this movie sucks.

[–] AfroGeek 8 years ago

First time I saw this I got confused as well. The trick is the bandage on his head. It appears at the beginning ofthe movie and only reappears in "present" time. Personally, I like that the different perspectives weren't spelled out for you.

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