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End of the movie [spoilers]


It's all nice and fine and feel-goody that he gave the house to the cripple girl. It was a happy way to end such a sad movie. My only problem with it was now that the cripple girl has the house, she will have to pay property taxes on it. Is the house handicapped accessible? Who will pay the utilities? And... what's gonna happen if a different neighbor bitches about the house's height?

It all seemed so wrong.

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I guess the guy who wrote the script (Mark Andrus) forgot about those details. I doubt that the other neighbors would have a problem with the height. David Dokos was giving them s_hit about it because he already had a problem with george so he was just looking for something to get him back with. but in terms of property tax and utilities there is NO way in hell a cripple who probably is unemployed could possibly pay them. Maybe George left some money in his will, maybe Sam's family helped out. Who knows. On Mark Andrus's part that was some sloppy writing. Sweet, but realistically a little off. Despite that, I'm gonna have to say I really liked the movie.

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Or if she can't afford to pay that she can sell the house, and have a good sum of money to live off of.

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I liked the movie but the ending annoyed me alot.

The house that they all put their heart and time in to making with a view to die of he gave away to the first cripple he saw? Really...

Not only is this a bit disrespectful to his father's legacy but he literally didn't even know the girl's name, who knows she could have been a peado or something and even if she wasn't what kind of message is this sending to people that handicapped people are something to feel sorry for? And you should randomly give them things because their lives automatically sucks for it?



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