Who did he choose :S?
who do you think he choose?
Alex or Sara?
I think Sara.
He tells her on the phone that he will call her right back because he has to do something first, and that is to wash his old self away. This is why he dives under water. And by going under water I think it symbolizes himself becoming someone different, more care free, hence why I think he will end up choosing Sara.
^ Or maybe the water can mean purification? He wants to rid himself of all the bad deeds he's done in the past few weeks with Sara. He realizes that ever since he's been in Laurel Canyon everything has gone downhill with relationships and by purifying himself, he will get to start over. When he looks at his mom, he realizes what a screw up she was and tries to hide underwater, but eventually when he come back up, he wants to be a better boyfriend, son, and overall person.
I think Alex plus his mom seemed to like her a lot
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I think the point is that you never know what's going to happen next in real life, which is why this doesn't have a definitive ending.
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Amazing that you are the only one (before me) to say Alex. The director isn't going to put an intense scene of reconciliation in if she doesn't intend them to be together.
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I'm surprised there are so many people saying this. I would buy it if there weren't the scene of him and Alex screaming at each other and having an intense reconciliation and declaration of commitment right before this. You don't have a huge thing like that and then say "oh, wait...never mind".
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I think it's Sara partly because the movie is called Laruen Canyon and he first had a run in with her on that road Laurel Canyon when he almost crashed going to work that first day. It just made sense to me that he chose Sara.
shareSara, for two reasons. Firstly, because I'd like to think that he isn't a self-destructive masochist who'll actually give his lying, cheating, horrible girlfriend a second chance, and secondly, because the submersion scene seems to indicate an epiphany taking place in his head, where he's - hopefully - realising that he doesn't have to stick to his original plans, he can change his mind and take a different path and it won't be the end of the world.
Seriously, with his MOTHER...????! Who DOES that? There's no excuse.
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OK, so I was a little late with watching the movie, but here it goes:
I do agree with you on who he chooses and why. I was also a lot more disgusted with her almost cheating than his because the fiance's was with his mother, and the boytoy - she also seemed more than willing to do it with both the mother and the lover separately, if they let her.
But the problem is, neither knew what the other one was doing. they felt it, probably, seeing the changes in behavior, noting how much the other one hung around with the new people they met. So she wins "the more disgusting" award, but for all he knew, he might have had a non-cheating fiancé who he was about to cheat on.
But he was really weird with the reactions with his mother. first (start of the movie) it looked like he was overreacting and being a little insensitive to their differences. but then he is all forgiving when he caught her in bed with his fiancé? man, he so needs a therapist himself. Also, what's with the affection he is showing to the girl who was frenching his mother?
Sara over the fiancé for sure. but in an ideal world, he should just pack, move away from there, change his residency and start new. more comfortable with himself, more aware of what he wants. oh, he can reconnect with the mother after she seeks therapy.
Boy, that was a long rant. :)
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Could it be that Sam chooses both Alex and Sara. After the penthouse incident, he appears to be reconciling with Alex and his Mom. Maybe Sam is learning to give his own values a rest, and realizing that he can have it all.
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Could it be that Sam chooses both Alex and Sara. After the penthouse incident, he appears to be reconciling with Alex and his Mom. Maybe Sam is learning to give his own values a rest, and realizing that he can have it all.Bingo! I believe Sam decides to loosen up a bit and follow the example of his mother, which he so rigidly resisted for years. Perhaps he had a fling with Sara and went back to Alex. Truth be told, I couldn't see him sticking with either of them, or them with him. share
Sara. Alex had made out with, and almost had sex with, his own mother. She cheated on him and also repeatedly lied to him (about apartment hunting, etc). There are simply too many women in the world to focus all your energy on one lying, manipulative head case, especially when there's a beautiful, fun Israeli who clearly wants you.
shareI agree. He decides then and there to give Sara a whirl.
shareI've watched this movie a million times and always thought he chose Alex, actually it never even crossed my mind that he may have chosen Sara, but I just watched it again and while on the phone to Sara, she mentions that you can't help who you fall for. As soon as Sara says that, Ian, floating on a lilo being pulled by a boat, crosses the screen and his mum looks at him as in to say "what can I say, I love him!", I think this symbolises that you CAN'T choose who you fall for, Ian wasn't typically the most appropriate person for Jane to love, but she did. I think in that moment, Sam realises that even though it may be tough, due to being engaged to Alex, he had to break it off. He couldn't help that he had fallen for Sara.
Oh, nice socks, man. Nice socks. Nice socks.
Sarah.
She was beautiful, exciting, and had common interest.
Plus, how could he ever get past Alex getting involved with his own mom! Yuck.
Niether. He chose to drown himself at that moment.
I had to crash the Honda....
Way late on this, but I think he chooses Sara.
I think that the reconciliation scene makes it pretty clear that he and Alex won’t be together much longer—not once does he say that he wants her (as Alex says that she wants him), but only that he’s trying to “keep this together” and “make things right.”
Sam grew up surrounded by “losers”—libertines whose lives appeared to be messed up because of their flippant go-with-the-flow, listen-to-your-heart attitude. It’s pretty clear that most of his adolescence and adult life was spent trying to take and maintain complete control over his life to prevent him from ending up like his mother and her groupies. Watching his mother go through multiple partners throughout his childhood probably also made him wary of keeping his romantic and sexual options open, (hence why he stayed with Alex for so long and wanted to “keep this together,” even though it was pretty clear to everyone around them that things were fizzling out,) as this appears to have had a particularly negative affect on his childhood.
Sara is beautiful, fun, relatable, smart, successful, and most importantly, appears so effortlessly in control of her life, living in LA without falling prey to the libertine lifestyle that consumes Alex. When she wonders why she would “let herself” fall in love with him, Sam takes the implication that she has any control over who she falls in love with too seriously, and feels guilty over the fact that he can’t help falling for Sara.
I think that when Sara calls and tells him that she can’t control her heart, Sam finally comes to the realization that nobody can—regardless of whether you’re a “loser” like Jane and her groupies or a successful physician like Sara. Further, and I think more importantly, it shows Sam that you can be controlled by your heart while still remaining smart, professional, and successful (etc.)—that there can be some middle ground between how Jane lives and how he was attempting to live—which finally gives Sam permission to dump Alex for Sara, and open himself up to new experiences and let loose a little bit without the fear becoming a “loser."
When his mother's boyfriend (who's the same age as her son) plays with the toy boat in the swimming pool, I think he finally comprehended why that boyfriend was JEALOUS of him (which also explains the reason why he tried to seduce his girlfriend).
Because when the SON shows up with his girlfriend the MOTHER also asked her boyfriend to stay at HIS PLACE (which he didn't want to do). So he blames her SON for being kicked out of his girlfriends place and then wants the SON to know what it feels like to have someone get in the way of the relationship you're having with someone.
And the way that he accomplished that goal was to come between the SON and his girlfriend (the same way as the SON comes between his relationship with his girlfriend (the mother of the son).
So it's basically a TIT for TAT type of situation, but since the SON was also FLIRTING AROUND and CHEATING on his GIRLFRIEND with his co-worker (while his girlfriend was FLIRTING around with his mother's boyfriend) he's also in NO POSITION to be so JUDGEMENTAL about what's happened.
At least that's the way I see.
Sam grew up surrounded by “losers”—libertines whose lives appeared to be messed up because of their flippant go-with-the-flow, listen-to-your-heart attitude.