I for one loved this movie, but can someone explain to me the whole nude parachutist thing?
It's when FH and Dennis O'Leary go to those new houses to get some scrap wire. They look out the window and see a woman parachuting in the nude. Dennis O'Leary says, "That's my wife." Very odd and funny.
I understand that some things in movies are just there for no partiuclar reason, but is that the case with the nude parachutist?
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Immediately after that Crudup's character says something along the lines of "..it seemed I had drifted into some sort of daydream he was having about his wife..." Just as the drive in movie radio stands weren't the graves they initially appeared to be, his wife is not actually parasailing naked through the air.
shareyes she is the only thing is was the house actually his and was she actually his wife, id say yes to both.
God will forgive them, God will forgive them and let them into heaven. I can't live with that.
In the book, Leary's character takes FH to another house after they've pulled out all of the wires, and FH waits in the car while Leary's character goes and talks to a woman at the house, and when he gets back into the car, FH realizes the woman is the same woman who was flying by. That's when Leary says it's his wife. So I think the last poster is right: it really was his house, and it really was his wife.
shareThe imagery itself could easily be likened to an angel, which compliments all the other religious imagery throughout the film.
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