Age difference wrecked it for me.

Your comment might have some merit if this sort of thing never happens, but quite the opposite, it happens all the time in real life. The actual age difference is immaterial if they are both adults. Even if Scarlett was 17, more likely 18, during filming it is the character's age that is important. Being married and traveling with her husband the character Charlotte was more likely in her early 20s.

I am older, I have traveled a lot on business, some international, like Bob here does, staying in a strange place and by chance meeting someone you have an instant compatibility with. The movie works because it is so realistic, too bad you are unable to see that.

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Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes not.

Can I give you another scenario?

What if the movie is really about a man who has a near death experience and meets his wife Lydia as she was two years into their twenty-five year marriage except that he is nothing more than a famous movie star to her. In this near death experience, Bob learns how unhappy and lonely his career has made her to the point that his wife has had enough and is ready to divorce him if he doesn't retire from his lucrative acting career.

Bob doesn't want to retire because he still loves making an incredible amount of money to be pampered in five-star hotels and doted on by press agents and company executives who will send beautiful young prostitutes to his room for free. Dire Straits said it best, "Money for nothing and your chicks for free."

To Bob's chagrin he discovers that everything in his near death experience has been reversed. There are a few positives: his wife now respects his career and has virtually unlimited time to spend with him while he relives his younger days partying with her because there are no children yet to occupy her time.

However, Bob finds that the reversal of his situation has surprising consequences in his work. His wife may be in her early twenties again but the cute young prostitute has been turned into a middle-aged woman. The commercial director doesn't respect or appreciate him and yells at him disapprovingly. The press agents ask him to do things that he doesn't want to do. The photographer asks him to be somebody else and insults him. And his wife is married to someone else so he can't be with her anymore. In short, Bob's marriage and his career have switched places.

During the events of Bob's near-death experience he comes to see how miserable his wife was before she became a mother and how being a mother has fulfilled her, except that she's desperately lonely and is prepared to divorce him. Bob must make a choice: retire from his career and devote himself to his family or lose them forever.


Promise me, no matter how hopeless things get, keep on trying, OK? Keep coming chin-up, OK?

I think we get your point, actually.

But OUR point is that you're just kind of pathetic, ageist, and immature.

Especially ageist and immature. Okay--pathetic.

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People like you should seriously be sentenced to death for being so god damn stupid.


I know you've had a rough time.

While I loved Johansson in this, I wonder, why cast a 17-year-old? Kind of odd.

If you had understood the real relationship between them you wouldn't confuse love with sexual attraction. If what you said were true I would assume you thought "Leon, the professional" was about a pedophile hitman ¬_¬.

It seemed pretty clear that she's a college graduate in the film, so she was playing someone about 22 or so.