Thirst of all - good job from Moore – I haven't really thought on that before but she is talented and exeptional actress. Secondly, quite interesting and well expressed story. i wish my parents would get it, they also watched it, but didn't really get into it, and didn't get the point, rather expressed their disappointment for having such a surreal movie to fill their Saturday night.
There was no change at all to any of the characters, they could have had the same day again with precision unheard of since groundhog day (the typewriter was even replaced). My life was unchanged in every possible way from watching it.
Please, if there is a point, besides a blatant overuse of the word 'darling' makes for an irritating dialogue, I for one would LOVE to hear it.
Surreal? the only thing surreal about it is the fact it was done deliberately.
Yes, Broderick did say darling an awful lot of times, ha.
I saw the film on a cable channel only from the Restaurant scene, where he must back down and return to the table, until the ending.
I thought that Broderick was a robot who had forgotten that he wasn't real and carried on as a normal man might. And I thought that Moore was benefiting from the arrangement as in "my brother thinks he's a chicken, and he should be cured of this, but we all need the eggs". Also it looked like Moore was having a nervous breakdown, so anything she said couldn't be considered seriously by the viewer.
Looks like my fantasy of seeing the film is better than the actual film is.
if they didn't change, maybe it is intentional. they don't change, they can't change, something stops these two unhappy people from changing their lives for the better.