Ending (Spoilers?)
Can anyone tell me what happens at the end. Do they end up together?
shareThey go to a quaint seaside village to a house where a former lover lives. She sees this as the answer to her dream of living in a nice house and being loved. However, she sees that her ex-lover has moved on and is married with a wife and child and doesn't want anything to do with her. It is then that she relizes that she and the boy need one another and that they are soulmates that are both all alone in the world. The film ends with them sitting on the edge of the dock and the boy having a day dream of buying a house with her and lying in a nice warm bed together with a storm howling outside.
shareThank you very much. I wasn't sure if them being in the house was him dreaming so thanks for clearing that up for me.
shareThey really were alone in the world and it so was best to pair together - Only the difference of ages. They don't say how old they were, but, judging from the actor and actress, looking up in imdb we see Vanessa was born in 1972 and Vincent in 1986- This makes her 14 years his senior. So they are now (2007) 35 and 21. Three years ago (2004) she was 32 and he was 18. Twenty years from now (2024) she will be 52 and he 38. Could it work? If there is real love, it could.
shareThe age difference between the actors doesn't have to match the age difference between characters. So, often this difference isn't so extreme as actor's data might show.
However, in this movie I'd say that the difference is even bigger. Not only that Billy was in a child institution (orphanage) and she had to sign that she was responsible for him, but he could return there, so he was not that close to being 18. On the other hand, the worry about ever having a baby would be way too early if Colette was only 32.
But even if this age difference is as big as my theory says, in this moment they have too much that binds them, and nothing else in their lives that would jeopardize their relation and could threat them to split. Despite her chronological age she isn't really mature (the way she tries to get pregnant, or how she appears at her long ago abandoned lover's door), while a child growing up in orphanage matures faster having more tasks and problems than average kids.
Yes, years later he might develop a feeling of being trapped or imprisoned, and she might become jealous and uncertain comparing herself to females of Billy's age. However, that doesn't have to happen having in mind where they come from, how and why did they start living together. And also, as today one in two marriages ends unsuccessfully and most of them don't have any significant age difference, is it obvious that age compatibility guarantees nothing anyway.