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really liked it SPOILER

posted 13 years ago by intofilm
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My husband and I watched this based on the prizes it had listed, but didn't expect a lot. We were pleasantly surprised. The acting was terrific.
I thought the screenplay was great too, the way it led them through an increasing openness.
We were very very impressed by the end of it.
I sent it back to Netflix yesterday but keep thinking about it. We talked a lot about what we thought would happen next, what should happen etc.

SPOILER !!
We definitely wished she would not marry Rodrigo.
Would it work to have a long distance romance from Santiago to Brussels? Would it work for her to leave Chile and go to Belgium? Don't know.
At any rate, my favorite movies are always the ones where there is some sort of interesting development or change in a character, and that certainly happened here, the way they went from casual, superficial sex to revealing their most painful memories, and clinging together in a sort of despairing intimacy at the end.

[–] bugsboom 12 years ago

you can think of the film as being left open to interpretation. I'm kind of glad we don't see that closure in the end where they get together and live happily ever after. It was the same with Before Sunrise. You're left wondering whether Jesse and Celine reunite six months later. You have questions that weren't answered until ten years later with the sequel Before Sunset and even THAT film is left with an open ending of whether the two main characters end up together. That's why I love this film. You can make up your own ending about what happened after they left the hotel room. I personally like to think they ended up together, but that while the passion and infatuation were there, the overall trust took some time to develop between the two. They would eventually fall in love with each other though. At least, that's how I've made the ending to be in my mind. :-)

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[–] lamont-hard 12 years ago

He was not the only guy she had done this with, so she seemed to like to experience other men....She said she loved her fiancee so that clouded the movie tremendously. I am not sure if a woman is getting married to someone she loved within a week she would back out.

To me it would have been better if we knew they were just a one time thing they will never forget and they would have been happy with there memory but I found him pressing her by going through her things may have hurt the memory in the long run.

It was amaturish to make the fiance a one time abuser as the film did not need it. One could tell the writer was looking to justify himself and her actions by trying to give to many options why she may decide to go with him. Yet, it only complicates it even more, when it was not needed. The love making and conversation, the strength of the movie all of a sudden was lost.

[–] lamont-hard 12 years ago

The abuse was 5 years ago, and he sought treatment. To me it should have been left out and i felt he the lover went overboard on pressing her to get to know her, she would now be sad instead of having a one time thing that could have been a happy moment/remembrance like the guy she went to the hotel with and he treated her with the utmost respect, we saw how she loved and remembered that as if it was the most important thing that ever happened to her. As hard as I tried when I really listened to her stories i could not help but feel she was depressed or suffered from depression, I hoped I was wrong on that, but the more she talked I felt her actions and behavior would happen again no matter what she does. Maybe she grew from the affair, witch one do you feel may be true. One last point I was wondering why she never got back in touch with the guy from the bus, and that was when I thought she will never call him again.