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Like most movies, this one did not add up.

posted 15 years ago by bruce-129
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I watched this movie because somehow it kept my interest throughout, but when I stop
to think about it, it was ridiculous.

Audrey is a nutcase. Why would she interfere in the life of this guy who she has always
hated, and then toss him out. It is like unconsciously she wanted to tormet this poor
guy, even at the time his best friend died and he wanted to straighten his life out.

Then he makes progress and she kicks him out, after sending so many mixed signals
to him it is not wonder he did not fall of the wagon in the first 10 minutes. Getting
him in bed and climbing all over him and telling him to pull her ear ... sheeeee!

Then blaming him because he was good with the kids too.

Then being stupid as a mother of two and risking her life to go pull Jerry out of
the drug house and detoxing him at home ... but having her brother do the dirty
work.

this movie was absurd.

What I wonder if who likes this movie and why. What is it about these dramatic
emotional movies that we get into no matter how much to do not makes sense,
it is like we love to have these sweet delusions of humanity, or we love to pretend
we do so others adopt this soft sweet delusional view of life, while most of
us stay the same.

[–] gioconda 15 years ago

"What is it about these dramatic emotional movies that we get into no matter how much to do not makes sense, it is like we love to have these sweet delusions of humanity, or we love to pretend we do so others adopt this soft sweet delusional view of life, while most of us stay the same. "

And therein lies the rub, dear Orrick.

[–] strangette 15 years ago

wow glad i'm no the only one to feel this way.

i've never had anything against halle berry even when people were bashing her for her role in monster's ball. something about it just being sex and not much substance, plot unreal, etc etc. she's beautiful, i see it.

watching this movie made me think back to it. i'm a girl, but couldn't help notice if this director or whoever just wanted to show her chest and beautiful body? i mean, nothing wrong with that, but i guess just showed that the movie itself didn't suck me into the emotional and distress that me as the audience was supposed to. the movie just didn't feel real. i felt like i was a puppet being pulled to what to feel at what scene. too obvious for my tastes. the wh0le point of a good story and movie for me, is that i don't even realize it's a movie.

she was a nutcase, and a self-righteous. i admit i didn't not finish it after she threw him out after he taught the kid to put his head under the water...
i guess i was wrong about what happens in the movie after googling the plot.

i thought she was gonna get herself addicted to heroin because she wanted to be free or whatever from the pain. or they sleep togther and it becomes even more complicated...

this movie just didn't do it for me. and halle and david did not have good chemistry at all. was that just me too?! i foudn it so hard to believe they were a loving couple... nothing racial, but their acting or the screenplay... just something.

[–] stebwood79 15 years ago

A nutcase?? She lost her husband, her best friend, the father of her childeren. How did you expect her to act??

[–] janesaaayyys 15 years ago

I liked this movie, I thought it was a beautiful story.

Audrey just lost her husband so it's quite understandable that she wasn't in the most stable frame of mind. Even though Jerry wasn't her favorite person she knew how important he was to her husband and he was always a good friend to him no matter what. I think she was trying to honor that even though at times she struggled with it, I think that explains her back and forth a bit.....that and also Jerry was the closest connection she had to her husband. He was a comfort as well as a constant reminder of what he was and what she lost.

"to live means to be aware...joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware"

[–] starkrogersromance 15 years ago

I liked this movie. Of course all of the depictions in it weren't real, but I do think that many people have the capacity to enact the humanity that David Duchovny's character did and Halle Berry's did initially. People can let the good in.

I Want to Believe.

[–] trobert1 15 years ago

Awful post, you cleary didn't get a good education.

[–] profvan9 15 years ago

Finally someone I agree with. That ear pulling was weird goofy.

[–] juniperjoline 15 years ago

Agreed...there was a lot that didn't add up, and we were asked to suspend our disbelief just one too many times, I thought. I didn't buy it that she would kick him out in the way that she did, for the reason that she did. Kick him out when he was what--a little over 21 days sober? It was nuts. Yes, I know she was grieving and not acting normally, but it still did not ring true for me. It would've been more believable had the ear pulling led to sex and that was why she kicked him out, or had he relapsed while living in her house. I know that might have been boring, but it would've been far more believable.

[–] jackthegreat2004 15 years ago

It makes perfect sense that she kicked him out. Firstly he had got Dory to put his head under the water. Then Audrey found out her daughter and husband had an activity she knew nothing about but this almost stranger to her did. Then he unintentionally gave Audrey advice about her daughter.

[–] rosecamp 9 years ago

Well, I wouldn't call it perfect sense, but nonetheless comprehensible. Audrey was jealous of Jerry. And she was angry about Jerry "outshining" Brian...