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About makin love with another man?


This movie was really good. I will give a 9/10. But the thing bothering me is why would anyone want to have sex with another man, even though she's in love with her sweet husband, and to the worst she also says she's also in love with Mark Ruffalo at the end.

Is this some kind of fantasy that one should have sex with more men, before getting married? and that she missed coz of married younger and had sex with one guy???

I am not being rude or judging, but I don't know much about this culture. I am from different country.

Pardon me, if I am wrong. It would be great if any of you help clear this thing off my head?


- Gilli
"Expectation hurts"

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Who of you can judge the actions Of someone who has so little time. She's dying and all bets are off. After all she's taking care of her daughters and doing as much as she can to make things easier for them. She loves her husband even though he fell asleep as she tries to reassure him . So I took it that he wasn't worried. She tried to make amends with her mother and father even though they were like"yah sure". Now she's only been with 1 man in her life so I think it's damn little to ask "to make another man fall in love with her and to sleep with him". All her life she's been the care taker so I hope it was everything she hoped it would be. At least she picked a good man. This movie had me in tears . Sarah Polley is such a sweet actress.

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I don't really understand why she did that either because they were happily married I don't think she ever seriously thought about cheating on him, maybe a passing thought of what it would be like with another man. But if they had both lived to be 80 I don't think she would have had the urge to be with another man at any time in their marriage. I guess it just shows how skewed our views of sex is, as if having sex with multiple people is so great you have to experience it before you die. I'm not judging but I would think you would want to spend time with those you love rather than spending time starting new relationships. I could almost understand her sleeping around if it was totally just curiosity and not a start of a new emotional relationship because that is utterly selfish any way you cut it and make her seem rather shallow, when other than this she is very likable.

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I think her choice to do this provides great insight into her character and into human nature. As her husband said while they were in bed together, she never complained about any hardship they faced together, never complained about not having the little things others do, like vacations or even a real home. She was forced to grow up at 17 and is now only 23 - while she didn't complain, it's clear that deep down inside she feels as though she missed out on many things, and her diagnosis brought those things into sharper focus. While she's devoted to her kids and clearly adores them, she wants to experience other things - and while it's clear she'll never travel the world, she can at least experience one or two things she missed.

Is this responsible or even advisable? Who's to say? I hope none of us ever has to be in Anne's shoes in order to feel the sort of motivation she did.

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Also, anyone who questions whether it's possible to love two people at once has clearly not experienced much of life and still holds a childish, happily-ever-after, shallow concept of love.

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Love is truth, commitment and being "all in" with the relationship. I my opinion she didn't really love either of them. I have to somewhat agree with you about loving two people at the same time since there are different types of love. In this case love for her husband and love for the intensity of being "in love". Selfishly she invalidated the love for her husband by seeking the intensity of being "in love" with another man. She may very well have loved her husband at one point but "that love" no longer existed when she sought out another.

True love between a husband and wife is not a childish or shallow concept. There are more than plenty happily-ever-afters; more the rule rather than the exception. Your cynical concept of love will likely and sadly cause you to never really experiencing it.

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