...or rather lack there-of.
Did anyone else think it could have gone on for another hour easily? I genuinely thought I was at about the half-way point, and then it just ended. There were so many story lines left open
I loved the movie, but I wish there was more of it.
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Not for me. It definitely felt long enough to be a movie...or two.
shareI agree, it seemed to end too abruptly.. when I watched it, I had a puzzled look on my face like "that's it?".
I thought the movie was rather pointless all together. It's almost as if they just added a bunch of pointless filler to it in order to keep from ending in 10 minutes. The acting was great, the general idea seemed interesting, but it was just.. dull. And I'm one to normally like dull movies.
I felt the same way, I was honestly hoping for a sort of build-up romance between Beagle and Georgia, and there would be a sort of "a walk-to remember" movie thing, where she ends up dying but finally he understands his father, and how it was hard losing someone they loved, and the mother really could have learned more and could have learned to accept that her daughter was trying to live the best she could.
I was really hoping for that storyline. that's what I was expecting, but when it ended, I got caught off-gaurd, so they had sex, that was it? I felt there needed to be more romance to it.
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Their storyline wasn't about romance. It was about two people asserting their independence and learning to stand on their own.
Georgia has sex with Beagle because she's taking control of her life and forcing it to unfold before her before it's too late and she can't experience it properly, and ironically, through helping Georgia live her life, Beagle is learning how to stop doing everything for everyone else and how to live his own. He gets enough confidence to confront his father, he does actually sleep with Georgia even though his father doesn't want him to, and because of the age difference, it's conventionally wrong.
Georgia started out the film being controlled by her mother, and ended it in control of her own life. Beagle started out as a person who was so emotionally unevolved that he could barely stand up straight, and ended up a character who confronted his largest issue as well as made an actual, relevant human connection.
It's not what they did, but who they are.
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Well said. You just expressed everything the filmmakers could not say effectively in this film. The Cake Eaters is a total bore.
shareI thought the movie was rather pointless all together. It's almost as if they just added a bunch of pointless filler to it in order to keep from ending in 10 minutes. The acting was great, the general idea seemed interesting, but it was just.. dull. And I'm one to normally like dull movies.
I enjoyed watching the duration of the movie, but felt unsatisfied after I realized it was over. After, thinking about it more, I did realize there was more to the movie as mean green explained.
I think maybe the problem was it seemed like the movie was setting up for something else. Just because of how stories usually go, I'm expecting to see a romance and a story about their relationship and to see more of their families problems solved in the duration of the story.
I think I created my own expectations while watching the movie and it was disappointing when they weren't met.
My meager opinion about movies is that happy ending are predictable but sad endings just plain suck (or lack of an ending in this case). I prefer to watch a movie with a predictable happy ending than a movie with a disappointing end. That's just me.
For me was fine. I read here that it has a "sad ending" and stuff like that so I was thinking that maybe it could be bad, but no. I like it.. It was simple at the same time was full of questions that only living can be answered.
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