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Could a good and understanding soul please help me?


I tried to watch this, but after 35 minutes I just couldn't continue. Would someone be so kind and write a synopsis of this movie, so I know how it ends?

Many thanks.

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MAJOR SPOILERS AHEAD.

Well, the story unfolds like this: they continue playing different roles each night (or day, you couldn't tell). The different conversations they have while in their respective roles help us understand what had happened between them that created their situation. From the beginning we learn that she couldn't make love to him ever since their daugheter had died and he, while patient for a long time, couldn't understand and suffer this treatment anymore, so one night he forced himself on her and hurt her physically and emotionally. She never quite recovered and, as the story continues, we learn how this affected their relationship and why that situation had come to be. We learn that they were in a car accident where she was driving and he was making her laugh at the precise moment she lost control of the car. And in that accident their daughter lost her life and they didn't know which of them was to blame. Their deceased daughter continues to narrate the film as we see them struggle to make things work in this strange manner that they chose. We are shown their infidelities with the bar workers (that they both accept and encourage) and then they make a breakthrough when she plays a young woman and they kiss after many years. She can't take it and leaves again and he has a breakdown and destroys the bar. She comes back the next day and she brings sleeping pills and a gun. She takes the pills and falls asleep in his arms while dancing. He cries and takes the gun and shoots himself while on the projector plays a movie of the whole family (daughter too) in the park having fun together.

I think this story would make an excellent play and I would enjoy seeing it again as one. I thought it was an enjoyable and thought provoking movie.

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This is the only movie I have ever fallen asleep on in a movie theatre. You make it sound somewhat interesting, so maybe I'll try it again. Thanks for your great sypnopsis- much appreciated!

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LOL kameeleoned_out

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I watched the whole movie and found it not so great. They tried to make it interesting and thought provoking, but I found it to be pretty full of itself. The cinematography was the best part of the movie. Beautiful to look at, but hollow.

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You have to be patient to see it through. I'm typically not, but I enjoy looking at Stanley Tucci so I did. I did enjoy it. It is very sad how it ended... I hoped with the blind man scene maybe they might turn it around. I thought it was rather selfish with what they did at the end, if you believe suicide is damnation. They would never see their daughter again. Their whole role playing thing was a little bizarre. I think most people who do that wouldn't play it so close to home. I kept wondering what his employees must think.

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Whether suicide is a selfish act or not is not relevant to the story. The last ad was asking for peace. They could have none from their pain.

"'Scuse me while I whip this out"
Blazing Saddles



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I agree iwth coprogirl

<<The last ad was asking for peace. They could have none from their pain.>>

I thought it was a very good film. For some reason it reminded me of "Tender Mercys".

I may not condone suicide, but I think there are many people who find life to painful to continue. I remember a movie called "Night Mother" It made a lot of sense to me.

It was refreshing to see a film that did not have the conventional happy ending. Instead, it explored the effects of a tragic accident that results in guilt and distroys the lives of two loving and decent people. (But i would have liked a happy ending.)

The movie rang true for me.

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