can anyone fill me in how the movie actually ended? my videofile was unexpectedly roughly 8 minutes shorter than movie length shown in imdb.com. possible that all i missed was the credits, but maybe not. the last seen i saw was how she goes on the bus after having talk & sex with jay. is this the end or is the movie continuing still?
Yes, she goes in the red bus and that's it. After that just one or two minutes of city traffic.
shareMy guess this mixed up and sad woman went back to random sex with different partners and he went to live with his son.
shareNothing in the film supports that assertion.
1. She, her hub, Jay, his friend, Betty -- every adult in that move is somewhat sad and somewhat mixed-up. As is the case in life!
2. She wasn't in the habit of having "random sex" with strangers. The dialogue makes very clear that she hadn't done this before and that she specifically wanted Jay -- that she hadn't wanted anyone (including her hub) for a long, long time.
3. It's clear that she and Jay had some kind of connection that neither expected and that each suffered a degree of heartbreak. She wasn't just out there screwing around.
4. She told her hub that she wasn't going to leave him, and implicit in that -- bc she wasn't some philandering person -- is that she was going to remain faithful to him.
5. How could Jay go live with his sons (plural)? They were living with his wife. Plus,the movie makes clear that there are no easy endings, and that Jay is moving forward after an interlude of being stuck. He actually boxes up and tosses the CDs -- he's accepting that the earlier lives he had envisioned for himself (one of those being "happy-ish family, with wife and kids") were not coming to pass. He's no longer mired in entropy, no longer simply marking time in that hideous house and trying to find connection with a woman who isn't really available.
"All you need to start an asylum is an empty room and the right kind of people."