cheating


I saw an interview with DiCillo,he talked about the sexscene between Al Fountain and ...that girl whose name I´ve forgotten. Both, the interwiever and DiCillo, agreed that it wasn´t cheating,it was just the "circumstances". I wonder what Al´s wife would have thought about such an explanation, haha.

All in all it was a funny and inspiring movie, but this particular scene seemed weird to me. You know, just too much change in the behaviour of such a straight and moral man like Al.

Disagrees?

reply

I agree with you. That part of the movie bothered me.

But my heart is in this film. It's what brings me back to this website periodically.

There is something very, very special about this movie.

reply

I totally agree that Box of moonlight is a very great film. I can't believe some people don't get it. Oh and I agree that Al cheating with Floatie would never go down well with his wife. I guess his experiences would go on to improve his relationships with his boy and wife but I think Al would be feeling guilty at some point. I don't think the Kid ever mades it to Chicago unfortunately – he belongs to the wilderness.

reply

WOW you put it perfectly. There is something very special about this movie ... It's never left me since the first time I saw it six years ago : ) It's my favorite all time movie.

reply

This movie has never left me either since the first time i saw it 5 years ago. It is a very special movie and was filmed in a very special place that is very dear to me: those gorgeous hills and valleys of east Tennessee that i dearly love.

reply

-

= too much change in the behaviour of
= such a straight and moral man like Al.

Moral? Have we been watching the same movie? He lies to his wife ALL the way through from start to finish, he calls a phone sex hotline, he blows off speaking to his own son, he lies to The Kid about the stolen keys, he lies to the girls about the Marines at Bambi's, he brutally vandalizes his own company's expensive project, he bangs some strange broad...

... and you call him moral?

Sheesh.

-

reply

Yeah, he treated his wife and son like crap for most of the film.
That actually pissed me off more than the adultery.
After all the other things he'd done it seemed a little less important.
I felt kind of bad for Floatie though.

reply

Oh, you've probably done worse this past weekend. Moron.



These pc-obsessed times are getting old.

reply

It was the only thing that bugged me about the movie. The director should have went another way.

reply

As we all know, the whole point of the film is for Al to grow up, ie: to stop being an emotionless robot. The Kid began the transformation, but it wasn't until Al was with Floatie that his relationship with the type of man he should have been all along is consummated. His relationship with his wife would have been doomed eventually. There is no woman alive that would want to be with the type of guy that Al was. Al was so predictable, so boring, and so one dimensional that he barely qualified as being a human. No smiles, no tears, no fears etc... What's the point of being alive if you won't allow yourself to feel. Floatie saved their marriage and she knew it! (The Finger Rub) Her feelings of inadequacy as a "fleeting" phone sex operator is negated by her ability to save a "lifetime" of marriage. The Kid showed Al what it means to have passion. It was up to Al to feel it. Floatie showed Al what The Kid couldn't.

reply

couldn't of said it better myself! btw this is definately in my top 10 fav films of all time just love it so much and highly recommend anyone to see it whoever hasn't already because the message is just so beautiful and the opening sequence is well perfectly directed by one hell of a director!

reply

This is one of my favorite movies of all time but if something in this movie bothers you how can you praise it? Nothing bothers me about this movie, it is very funny, very original, and very real.

reply

Those asprins will really make a man do what he normally wouldn't. Good to see Al having a good time and letting loose. I would have to say that it was circumstance, and again those asprins. :)

It's a slender curtain between theatre and life. Let's lift that curtain, shall we?

reply

I think I'll never understand the American approach towards morality. Al vandalizes a tomatoe field and causes a damage of about $ 100.000 to the factory plant he was working on before during the movie (not speaking about letting someone drive his rented car, who has no licence and is obviously under influence) - and a little consesual sex between two people of full age bothers you? Besides - we don't even know that for sure. Maybe they were just sleeping in the same bed. (O.k., naked, not very likely, but since they seemed to have been stoned it is still a possibility.)

reply

- and a little consesual sex between two people of full age bothers you?



Yes, when "a little consensual sex" = cheating. But clearly I may be in the minority on this board as people think it actually would make their marriage stronger!? I'll have to run that by my wife sometime and see how that goes over and be sure and include how much it would have hurt this woman if I didn't sleep with her...oh right it is better to keep it from her. There are no limits to how people will try to rationalize their behavior, even turning it in to a positive for all parties involved..LOL.
The vandalism wasn't lost on me and neither was the trespassing, ruining the tomatoes, etc.

reply

Cant go by his straight forward personality, he was on DRUGS!!!!

reply

[deleted]

It wasn't glorified at all--Al was very hesitant about it until he realized he was hurting Floatie by NOT pursuing her. And I think he realized that this distant fling couldn't hurt his marriage--and might, in fact, make it stronger because he was finally allowing himself to bust out of his robot shell.

Al was, deep down, a kind man--and he was kind to Floatie. When he returned to his wife, the memory of that kindness made him a better husband.

reply

he cheated on his wife.

the thing about this movie, is, what happens in the sequel?

Floatie Dupre shows up at Al's house with a baby. It's the prequel to a Maury Povich show about 'whos the daddy'? We are talking DNA tests, lawsuits, and child support payments being garnished from Al's wages. his actual, real wife might leave him, doing god knows what to his kids.

i would actually love to see the sequel. but i would love the main character to be Floatie.

or.... maybe the main character could be Floatie's daughter... uncovering what really happened in the 1990s, and where she really came from, who her father really was.

she could visit Sam's character, much older, trying to discover the truth.

reply

"Each man can choose how he marches in the parade of life" -Al Fountain, July 4th, 4:00 PM


I think the burning easy chair as Al first pulled-out of the car rental place was a metaphor regarding what was about to happen to any remaining Leave-it-to-Beaver sense of morality.

Speculating what his wife would have thought means you've probably missed the point.



"For once in my life, I'd like to catch somebody BEFORE they do something horrible. Alright?"

reply

I assumed she gave them XTC.

There was all this weird music in that scene and they were dancing around and over the fire.

I believe they were drugged a bit.

Over all, a great movie with a decent message for it's day...remember, this was '97 or so.

reply

"Aspirin" :wink!:

"For once in my life, I'd like to catch somebody BEFORE they do something horrible. Alright?"

reply

its not leave it to beaver.

its people's feelings.

it's not morality.

it's emotion.

reply