1. The female lead character never gets up to help work, she just watches people. The scene where they are baking a pie, why didnt she just start rolling dough or something and make herself useful. I think they have had pie in Germany for a long time, she should be able to help out.
From what I saw (I'm not a historian or anything and I almost failed in history class so I don't know the accuracy) it seemed she didn't know how to make a pie. If she didn't know maybe she was curious how it was made?
Also is that possible that she was a stranger in town and needed to adjust herself? Remember she couldn't communicate well since she spoke little English. You say she never gets up to help work, but if you saw the film till the end you would have known it's not true.
2. The bad guy, well what a shock, it's the minister at the church. When was the last positive reverand or priest? The old guy in the Bells of St. mary's?
He is not a bad guy. He is just a human with a flaw like other characters in the film. again if you saw the film till the end you would have known what he did in the end.
She gets up in the night, runs accross a feild, washes clothes, and falls asleep in the bath tub.Very unlikely.
why not? she couldn't take a bath and it was late at night and nobody was up.
4. They do have something right, ask anyone who moves to Minnesota from another state and they are shocked at how unfreindly the state is (I live here by the way). People in the south are 1,000 times more freindly. People out east might be rude but at least they are interesting.
I've never been there so I don't know about this.
I'm sorry to hear that you didn't like the movie. I wish you stayed till the end of the movie at least. It sounds like you didn't understand the film at all - I mean you don't need to like this movie but your reasoning is rather lame.
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moepop-1
17 years ago
Hello:
I understood it all right. I understood that I was watching a film that had a very unlikely event, a character goes into someone's house in the middle of the night without waking the guy who lives there, pours a bath in a big metal tub, hopping in and falling asleep until morning. If I remeber right she also washed her clothes and then wisely hung them out to dry at a considerable distance from where she was snoozing int the tub. It just would not have happened. It was just poor writing. It took me out of the movie, and out of the theater. Again, I did go into the theater hoping to like it, just didn't work for me.
To you and all the other posters that seem to think there is some kind of moral obligation to sitting all the way through a movie that you are not enjoying, I'd like to have some explain the me why that would be. How does that make me a moron or immoral? Or do other factors do that?
Also, please note any spelling or punctation errors I might make, I'm always willing to learn.
As for MN, the most accurate portrayal of the state was done in the movie Fargo (except for the violent scenes). Come to think of it, I walked out of that one too.
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spensolo
17 years ago
Hello:
I understood it all right. I understood that I was watching a film that had a very unlikely event, a character goes into someone's house in the middle of the night without waking the guy who lives there, pours a bath in a big metal tub, hopping in and falling asleep until morning. If I remeber right she also washed her clothes and then wisely hung them out to dry at a considerable distance from where she was snoozing int the tub. It just would not have happened. It was just poor writing. It took me out of the movie, and out of the theater. Again, I did go into the theater hoping to like it, just didn't work for me.
To you and all the other posters that seem to think there is some kind of moral obligation to sitting all the way through a movie that you are not enjoying, I'd like to have some explain the me why that would be. How does that make me a moron or immoral? Or do other factors do that?
Also, please note any spelling or punctation errors I might make, I'm always willing to learn.
As for MN, the most accurate portrayal of the state was done in the movie Fargo (except for the violent scenes). Come to think of it, I walked out of that one too.
I don't know if others will agree but about Inge taking a bath and falling asleep etc. My take is this - she came all the way and she couldn't take a bath at Frandsen's and couldn't sleep well with all the kids snoring next to her. And I do think Inge is a woman who does what she needs to do - and she needed a bath. from her character I wouldn't be surprised for her to put her clothes outside since nobody was around to see her walking naked. I don't think it was a bad writing... her action gave us a clue about her characteristic.
As for Olaf not waking up - he is a hardworking man so probably he was too tired to wake up when Inge came to his house.
I am not calling you a moron for not staying till the end of the movie. Of course you can walk away if you don't like the movie. But I had a problem seeing those questions/statements which you would have known the answers for if you stayed till the end of the movie. Also, people won't respect your opinion based on watching only a half of the movie.
Some mistakes are too much fun to make only once.
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magpie930
17 years ago
As for MN, the most accurate portrayal of the state was done in the movie Fargo (except for the violent scenes).
Absolutely not! I'm sorry, that's just laughable. Fargo is high farce in terms of portraying Minnesota and North Dakota. It's completely exaggerated. It's like saying Hee Haw is the most accurate portrayal of the south. I'd be interested in where you live moepop-1... and why you live here if we're so unfriendly.
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