I've never, ever understood why oh why the old man decided to go for Meg Ryan's body. Shouldn't he have gone for Alec Baldwin's instead and found a way to switch into his body? I'm gay myself but I find it odd that the old man went for Meg Ryan's body to stay young. Unless the old man was either, gay, bi or trans.
shareIt's been awhile since I last saw this film but if I remember correctly the "old man" wanted to become Meg Ryan's character because she was youthful and carefree. The "old man" was down and out and very forgetful. So, when he saw this young human with a bubbly personality he wanted to be them and to feel that way. It didn't have anything to do with the person being female or male.
"I have no memories I'm prepared to share with you."- Peter O'Toole
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Recruiting? Please tell me you're joking.
shareYou've entirely missed the point of the movie. The old man didn't "go" for anyone's body, he didn't expect what happened any more than Ryan did, nor did he control it. But he felt a more intense love for her, and a desire to know what it would be like to be her more than he did Baldwin, because he loved his wife and daughter so deeply and wondered what it would be like to be female, to have the capacity to give life and love, to look back, as he says "from the other side of the bed".
It was not only about being young.
He also wanted to have a baby, probably to feel what that experience would be like. Remember the scene on the beach when he asked to have Alec Baldwin's baby.
shareYES!
That's the story.
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Interesting.
He's nothing next to Bart Taylor.
I know this is an old thread, but I just saw this for the first time.
found this post in another thread - "bizarre" post by Newbie453
"A major point or theme of the movie seems to have been missed here.
This movie was written by a gay man. I rmember reading somehwere, that part of what he was trying to achieve is to make a non-gay audience understand or at least appreciate what goes into an attraction between two men. For better or worse, there is a gay agenda for this movie. Both the director and writer were gay men (the director has died from AIDs complication so I used past tense).
So when Alec Baldwin kisses the Old Man, we as the audience are intended to identify with what he is feeling in bringing himself to make that kiss, and to see that love and even attraction can transcend the bodies that we find ourselves in, even if the two bodies in question are same sex."
Makes sense to me.
I like reading these boards while watching movies.