MovieChat Forums > Blind Date (2008) Discussion > How do you feel about the ending?

How do you feel about the ending?

posted 14 years ago by cdunbar-3
6 replies | jump to latest

Speaking as someone who has lost a child (although she was not an only child) I found it difficult to relate to the parents in this story. Although we all grieve in different ways, I found their self involvement painful to watch. That they would give up on life entirely made a mockery of their earlier efforts to reclaim life. I'm of the old fashioned school that believes we must take the bitter with the sweet. At some point we all experience loss of loved ones but friends and family usually help us find the strength to carry on. I find it unrealistic that Don and Janna seemed bereft of friends who would support them. The world they lived in didn't seem like the real world. Of course you have to want to go on...clearly Janna didn't and that troubled me most of all, that Don yielded when I sensed he would rather not. Curious to know other's response to the extremely depressing ending.

[–] bama1111 14 years ago

Fortunately for me, I have never had to experience a loss like that. As you stated, people deal with loss in different ways. I think I can understand wanting it to end like that, for the parties involved, but I cannot imagine making that choice myself. Although I found it terribly sad, I liked the movie, particularly the duo of Clarkson & Tucci.

Emperor: Tell me how he died.
Captain Algren: I will tell you how he lived.

[–] appljax36 14 years ago

I kept thinking the ending was yet another role playing scene...

[–] hisslook 14 years ago

The ending was so sad.I just kept hoping they would make up, work it out.A happier ending would have been nice.I love Tucci and Clarkson together.Great chemistry and great actors.Both under rated.

[–] Jakezen 13 years ago

The movie gave me a lot to think about and that makes a good movie for me. I would not have made the same choice but I understand their choice. They both blame themselves for their daughters death, the mother more so, and they felt tremendous guilt over it. That is why life is such a struggle for them. I got the sense the husband could have pulled himself out of the morass of pain given enough time but he could not face living without both his daughter and wife.

[–] avalonrock 12 years ago

I have never got to the ending although I've tried several times on Cable TV.
I found it sad and too negative although brilliantly acted and scripted.
As a psychiatrist, too negative for me.

[–] hawktwo 11 years ago

I have had great loss and experienced it when a single person. I think that made it easier to not blame someone else.

I just saw the play made from this today, "The Personals" and the ending was more ambiguous, if I'm reading between the lines correctly. In the play, it is not a certainty that Don joined Janna.

No one applauded as the lights came down. I think we were too absorbed in our own sorrow at the play. Then the actors came out for curtain call and got their applause.