Julia's somber look at the end. **possible spoiler**
While she is sitting at the table by herself at the end, she has a look on her face that is hard to comprehend. Reflective? Regret? Sadness? ??? What do you think?
shareAll of that and more. Bittersweet victory. She was still aging. Was it all worth it? And so on.
As good old Bill has put it, the whole world is a stage and all men are actors.
We can't be lost; we don't know where we're going.
All that matters is that we're going.
She is sitting all alone with no-one.
Her husband is busy with his new girlfriend and Julia's former toy-boy is dumped.
Old post, but good question. I felt Julia reclaimed herself in a way she had never before.
She reclaimed her marriage, her career, made peace and earned the respect of her son, dealt with Tom by means of vengeful sex and threw Avice so far under the bus that she'd never claw her way back out.
Most importantly, if was her choice to skip the opening night after party, her choice to be alone and her choice to drink beer, beer being a metaphor for who she really was.
It signified that she had come into her own and would from that moment forward make the decision that most affected her life,
It was sort of a story of a mid-life crises and Julia had survived and made it to the other side.
At least that's how I saw it.
>I felt Julia reclaimed herself in a way she had never before.
>She reclaimed her marriage, her career, made peace and earned the respect of her son, dealt with Tom by means of vengeful sex and threw Avice so far under the bus that she'd never claw her way back out.
>Most importantly, if was her choice to skip the opening night after party, her choice to be alone and her choice to drink beer, beer being a metaphor for who she really was.
>It signified that she had come into her own and would from that moment forward make the decision that most affected her life,
>It was sort of a story of a mid-life crises and Julia had survived and made it to the other side.
Yes, you nailed it!
Thank you, love the movie.
shareAnd she was finally finding a way out of her terrible vanity.
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