Hey! I just saw the film a couple nights ago, and I was wondering about the photo in Fergus's office...the one with the young man with the diploma. That looks an awful lot like Michael, but it looks like he's standing, and I thought that he hadn't seen his father in like 20 years? Anyway, I'm really really curious to know what that was all about...Thanks!!
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Thanks...I sort of assumed it was his brother, too
shareYea, it was definitely a younger half brother of Michael's. I'm pretty sure the actual man is the actor playing Michael but made out to look healthier and stable. When I saw that scene I thought.."Damn, he's been replaced." That had to be a stab wound to the heart...
shareits michaels brother and he is at rory's funeral in the dvd extras too at the gravesite
sharei thoguth it was michael b4 he got the deaseas but you may not be able to get it just randomly so i could be wrong
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I think it's Fergus' adopted child. Michael didn't recognize him and Fergus stepped in front of the picture like he didn't want Michael to see it. Michael also looked totally shocked. If it had been a brother, then, he would have known who that was.
shareNo, because he'd been living in that institution all his life and his father had ignored him. Besides, it looks to much like Michael for him to have been adopted.
I think Brandon Boyd should marry me so I can cook his skinny ass some PIE!
I actually thought that was Micheal before his cerebral palsy got worst, I just assumed that Fergus kept the picture of his son but when people ask about him, he would say that Micheal didn't want to see him. Shamful father, he should have been exposed.
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This was stated in another thread as well...
Cerebral Palsy does not get worse, most people are born with it and that's the way that are for the rest of their lives. I have mild spastic CP, I was born 4 months permature, and I have tightness in my lower half of my body and the right side of my upper half. There are different 'levels' of CP, but CP is not progressive. I, for example, walk on my own (I've had numerous surgeries to correct my gait). Some people need walkers, wheelchairs, arm crutches... it just depends on what part of your body is affected.
Muscular dystrophy (what Rory had) is progressive.
CP is not.
You can improve what you can do on your own through physical therapy (one of my friends is in a wheelchair, and with lots of physical therapy she can now get herself into bed and with some help crawl up and down stairs. We're so proud of her)
If you're interested here's some links about CP:
http://www.healthatoz.com/healthatoz/Atoz/common/standard/transform.jsp?requestURI=/healthatoz/Atoz/ency/cerebral_palsy.jsp
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerebral_palsy
Ok, that's all I had to say, sorry about the rant...
Thank you for the information on CP, I haven't interviewed a victim of CP, may I ask you personal question, confidential of course.
sharei got the impression it was an "able" adopted son that lived up to his expectations, as there was no initial emotion from micheals part of who it was. surely he would have mendtioned to Rory it was his brother? x
sharethe photo is off michael befor the cerebal palsey got worse and he was put in the home. his dad stands in front of it to cover it up because michael looks at him after seeing it and starts to nearly cry
shareUM, NO. Cerebral Palsy is "in effect" at birth or within the first 15 months of infancy. Once the damage has been done, it probably won't get any better but it definately won't get worse (except for aging a bit faster.)
shareI figured it was a younger brother, one his father had after he left him and his mother and married another woman.
shareDidn't Michael say his mother died? We don't know when that was, so, she could have had another son after they placed Michael in the home. The reason he never found out was his father could have told her not to tell him.
shareYeah, he did say his mom died, presuming Rory translates truthfully. I'm with Joannakathryn - Conolly remarried soon efter his wife's death, and had another, healthy, son.
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But how old was Michael when she died? He did know she was dead. That means someone told him. Maybe his father. The young man in the picture could be about seventeen or eight teen meaning that Michael would have been seven or eight years old when his father remarried if he did and the baby was born.
shareMaybe....it's a twin brother. Since they looked an awful lot alike.
I think Rory figured out the correct events:
Michael's mom died.
His dad stuck him in a home.
His dad never visited him in the home.
So there you have it guys.
A possibility, anyway.
Ehm, folks, just finished watching the film and the photo is so obviously a Photoshop job (see how the head is too big for the rest of the body) and the face is Michael's, that it's clear to both Michael and Rory that Michael's father pretends to have a healthy son somewhere with a college degree. The ultimate insult. And that's exactly how Michael and Rory see it and this is why Michael's father goes with the emotional blackmail.
Because when he asks what happens after he organises the apartment, Rory says, everything is going to be the way it was before they came into his office.
My interpretation
b_raekson, that's exactly what I thought. Glad to find that post in this thread.
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I disagree, I think his dad remarried and had another, healthy son, whom he was very proud, which was a kick in the stomach for Michael since he had just abandoned him, I didnt read into it as being a twin brother or a photoshop job or anything like that.
I only saw the film once though so I didnt get a good look at the photo really.
The young man in the picture is the father's new son from a new relationship. It drove home the point of how little the father cared/cares for Michael and how he happily discarded him for a "better" and new son.
The father stood in front of the picture after noticing that Michael saw it because he wanted to conceal that he has a new life and Michael is not a part of it.
It's Michael half brother. I think his father is remarried, since Michael said that his dad sent him to Carrigmore Residential Home after his mother died. You can see Michael's half brother on funeral scene, ---but I can't see Michael's father there.
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