I still dont get it
He did not love dorothy
shareYeah, that's the one glaring flaw in this movie. It ends with Jerry and Dorothy together, simply because it provides the obligatory happy ending. It would have been better if the movie had ended before the whole "You complete me/You had me at hello" nonsense.
shareI disagree. Sure, he's had trouble with intimacy, and it's rough going for him and Dorothy for quite a while (along with everything else), but the point of the ending is that he's really come to love her despite himself. There are telltale signs of this along the way. Note, for example, that when Dorothy is about to leave for San Diego, she tells Jerry not to forget that he's better than all the Bob Sugar's, and that's when he realizes (perhaps unconsciously) that he loves her and proposes. At the end of the movie, after Rod's trial by fire, he discovers he's found the right kind of success, the real love of family and true friends instead of the fake love that's demonstrated by his colleagues at the beginning.
shareyou guys missed the point, he realized after the road trip with rod and winning the dallas game that although he felt happy for rod and his success he didn't feel complete because his wife wasn't there to celebrate with him so that's when he realizes that he loves her and needs her. The ending made sense to me.
shareI think you're missing a bit of it.
Notice how in the last scene, as the Maguires are walking around, it's not the two of them holding hands, it's each of them separately holding Ray's hands between the two of them.
It seems to me that he still loves the kid more than he loves her and their relationship is not like the one that Rod and Marcee have found ("not everyone can have what you have"). But he's working on it, and that's where the relationship is at.
It's not some fairy tale "Happily Ever After", but they're both trying. And at the end of the day, I suppose that's the modern relationship.
Exactly, he loves ray more than her at the end of the film, but like in real life his love for her could grow. Or it could all end with murder suicide, c'est la vie.
shareYes, he realizes after everything happens with Rod that it all means nothing if he doesn't have someone to share it with. (Happiness is not happiness unless it's shared.)
Also, I think they were a family. Being married is about more than just romantic love.
I don't know.
In that scene, he kept mentioning "his wife" and not "Dorothy", which made me wonder if he was not missing any close female with him, not that one in particular...
At the beginning of the movie we are told how he can't be alone, and there he was alone...