Kate would kiss Morgan under the tree that Alex planted for her......to me, that showed that she didn't care about him as much as we would believe. Otherwise, why would she do that?? It doesn't make any sense.
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That bothered me too! Maybe she was in denial...
shareShe was momentarily 'broken'. Unfortunately for both her and Morgan, he showed up just in time to be the very (un-)timely rebound. In the scene, she very much noted that they were at Alex's tree, and I think she was trying hard, maybe too hard, to do what she had demanded of Alex: "Let me let you go."
My interpretation is that it was _precisely_ because Alex was so much in her mind that she kissed Morgan under the tree.
She kissed Morgan because she was trying to forget Alex, she knew that she had thought about Alex everywhere she had went and seeing the tree was too much for her. So she kissed Morgan to get her mind off of Alex.
"I am the ultimate badass, you do not wanna `*beep*` wit' me!" Hudson in Aliens.
i think she was just trying to prove to herself that she could move on
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OK, but just tell me how could she (then) know that the tree was planted by Alex?
shareShe had just recently told him she missed the trees at the lake house and then one suddenly popped up outside of her apartment building.
Yes, I agree with that, but it is questionable if she could find a connection between these two things. After all, this communication with a man from the past was already hard to believe, and this tree was even beyond that...
shareIt's dramatic license. Many movies aren't believable but are nice stories.
The tree wasn't there when she moved in, it just appeared one day and shielded her from the rain. It happened soon after she'd written Alex that she had missed the trees. I doubt she expected a tree to suddenly appear from someone else.
A typical Sandra Bullock scene would have had the tree appear underneath her and she would have then had to climb down from it. I'm happy they didn't do that. It would have been too much comedy for this film.
Things happen for him in real time and she's witnessing how he's changing the past, well a little. If the wall graffiti had been there for two years then it would have been weathered away or tagged over for instance.
I enjoy the movie. If we look for everything to make sense in movies then we'd almost always been disappointed.
Hah, I was thinking the same thing about the tree -- "Yikes, good thing she wasn't standing on the spot the tree was planted; ouch!"
My take on that is she didn't know he died, yet and thought he stood her up at the restaurant. So she was trying to move on. Which is why she asked him to stop writting to her.
shareThat was my first thought when I saw that scene too. But on my second watch of this movie I felt different. I don't think it was that she didn't care about Alex. I think it was more out of desperation to find love.
She mentioned to the young girl watching the movie in the hospital about being careful that she doesn't let her whole life pass by while waiting for the right one. She also mentioned to Alex in her last letter about the terrible possibility that nobody is waiting for someone when they die.
Morgan happened to be the one guy who was trying hard to get her interest. I think she wanted to make it work and hoped Morgan might change if she worked hard to make the relationship work. She probably wanted him to become like Alex. The tree was an emotional reminder. Unfortunately Morgan was more interested in the idea of being married rather than actually being in love.