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Interesting message in the movie

posted 19 years ago by aholt1275
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Well here is my take for what its worth.

I liked the movie but it certainly was not a great film as it was so disjointed.

One theme/message that I liked and got from the movie is the notion that sometimes things/events (especially romantic relationships) need to be left in the past and not overly romanticized. Sometimes people view old relationships by only looking at the good and positive aspects of the relationship particularly in the case of Laura Linney where her old boyfriend passed away and was frozen in time in her mind. It became clear that the original Scott was just a regular ol' person (good and bad like all of us) when Marcia Gay Harden seemed to admit that he wasn't even that great but she just wanted to steal him from Linney at the time or when F.Scott said that the painting from the original Scott that Linney valued so much was probably just spilled paint. I left thinking about a few of my old relationships and thinking to myself "those are great memories that I cherish but they belong in the past - if you try to recreate them they just never measure up because they belong right where they are . . . in the past."

Anyhow, that is my take.

What do you all think?

[–] CarolStarr 19 years ago

I think that's partly true, aholt1275.

Even F. Scott told her that was only high school. And then Louise was all like, maybe people shouldn't move on. (Which a part of me thinks is true, depending on the type of relationship.)

Should all past friendships be moved on from?
If you had a falling out with a parent should that be moved on from?

I think you have to pick which experiences to pick up the pieces and move on
with and what relationships are worth keeping. Of course in the case of Scott #1 if the person tied before you get closure that really sucks. And the only thing you can do is NOT replace them with someone else.

Because what are the odds of meeting someone with the same handwriting, same name, same looks, etc? I think that element of Schulman's story hurt the movie, as well as not being 100% book true. When they got rid of most of
the ethnic parts to make the film more mainstream, I think that also hurt the film.

[–] nezray2001 12 years ago

What ethnic parts?