my analytical take of this movie (possibly spoilers who knows)
from reading some of the post about this movie is just quite crazy. this is to analyze everything that i can remember about this movie or from all the post that have touched on this.
1. the age gap: our culture deals with age quite alot. older men marrying younger women and older women marrying younger men and vice versa. somebody on one of the post said its about transference of father daughter vice versa. archie possiblity somewhere in his deep subsconsious wanted to teach and show the ways of the world that he never had the chance to since he didn't have that with his daughter. with brett she too wanted that as well she wanted somebody to teach and show her the ways of the world and to be good at it. of course with most age gap relationships it always or sometimes doesn't work out. they are interchangeable electrons shifting from one nucleus to the next to help each other out.
2. the pants: when brett bought the pants it symbolizes change, breaking free, and etc. she was always conforming to what the editing world wanted her to be, her father wanted her to be, archie wanted her to be, and so on and so forth. she was struggling in this and trapped under all that weight of doing this and doing that for other people that she never fully realized what she wanted. in the end when she walks out of the elevator wearing the pants it signifies that she has broken free of trying to be who everybody wanted her to be instead of the slacks that represent business and conforming to the ways of the working world.
3. the father dying and archie's medical problems: probably the reason for this not being expanded upon is that: it wasn't part of the main theme of the movie. though when brett went to see archie he said "i've been drinking all along" or something like that it shows that he is not willing to change and will always be this charmer who is always thinking selfishly. the father dying symbolizes change the change that brett is so desperately needing that breaking free of always needing a father to define who she is. when he dies it allows her to pursue the change even if it is subtle.
4. the movie was charming and a great entertainment from the world we live in. movies are hard to make...instead of bashing it why don't you try making one and taking the time to write the script, do the special effects, the score, the sets, the directing, the hiring of the actors, and so on and so forth. the world is very imperfect and in therefore movies will have its imperfections just go with the flow and enjoy it instead of bashing the film. look at things in a different perspective instead of being close minded. all in all it was a nice movie for me to take a break from while i'm bombarded with all the college assignments i had to do. also, originally movies were away of entertainment and a break from the real world they were fantasy and are still fantasy. think back during the ww1 and ww2 many would go and see movies they didn't care about whether or not it was a bad movie they praised it for being an hour to however many hours the movie was to let them be removed from what was going on. thats all i am going to say hope you can take whatever i say and run with it.