Just generally a downer. My family was like: well, that would suck. No big emotional, heart wrenching moment just general suckageness. Was there even a climax? Well, obviously therewas one, but it was completely underwhelming. I was more bored than touched.
Oh, and for the record, my grandmother has the disease and I am in no way belittling it or making light of. Just a sucky movie.
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Not every movie can be as good as Click.
Stacy is a guy so don't make fun of his name because he will find you and give you the pain.
Damn straight.
And I wasn't expecting throwing plates soap opera drama... just something... better. All the somewhat good parts in the movie are shown in the trailers. To me it wasn't romantic or endearing OR dramatic. Just utter... whatever. Indifference.
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That's the exact thing my girlfriend said lol. The notebook was better imo as far romantic dramas go.
shareWhy is this compared to Click in this thread?
sharelol agreed maybe they should go watch click for some excitement. Leave the good movies for us to enjoy.
sharelmao you obviously were expecting an incredible melodrama with people smashing plates, yelling and crying all over the place. thank god this isn't THAT movie.
shareI don't know if I would classified this movie as sad. It is indeed a sad situation but I found it deeply romantic and somehow uplifting. As the young girl says to the husband " I should be so lucky". I think is one of the most beautiful love stories ever filmed. The movie is full of profound feelings but you have to think about them, it is not a soap opera....
shareI agree fostre. I personally found the movie deeply moving. Made me think what I would do if I was in the same possition with my girlriend. Could I actually take it? Would I have the strength to stay and just 'love'. I think the movie definately had an arty feel to it, not the kind of movie you should just sit down and watch as entertainment.
shareYeah. I was surprised this movie didn't move me. I was kinda disappointed by how I showed absolutely no emotional response to the movie, while Click made me drench in tears. If they took the Click root with the emotional, depressing songs in the background and some tears shed by the characters, I would have no doubt cried to it endlessly as if it were one of the most depressing tragadies.
sharewell my mother cried like a baby :P
shareAway from her is more of an arty film. Click is very Commercial. In arty films the film makers tend not to want to use a crazy amount of intense thought manipulating music, the idea that the film can move its self along without music or with subtle music is usually what they go for, they don't want to manipulate peoples thoughts with the music, the story should have been enough. But most people are so used to the commercial manipulatey films that they find the arty non manipulative films boring or unmoving
shareBut most people are so used to the commercial manipulatey films that they find the arty non manipulative films boring or unmoving
You're probably right but I always love a score.
I think you missed the whole ending, though I think first-time director Sarah Polley could have done a better job of making it more explicit.
At the end of the movie Marian has sold her house to put Aubrey back into Meadowlake with Fiona. Most people here assume it was a big sacrifice on Grant's and Marian's part. But nothing could be further from the truth!
First off, where is Marian going to live now? She has no other resources. The obvious answer, though not explicitly made in the film, is that she is moving in with Grant! The two of them have decided to move away (an ironic twist of the title) from their spouses and make a life together. Marian made that decision before Grant, with her nervous telephone messages setting up their first "not a date" date, but by the end of the movie Grant has clearly decided to make a life with Marian. By putting Fiona and Aubrey back together in Meadowlake, it's both an act of betrayal by both of them and the most compassionate thing left that either of them can do for their spouses.
Throughout the movie it's clear that the ultimate theme was about Grant having to make a deeply tragic choice to abandon his love for the now lost Fiona, as well as the guilt he feels over his earlier infidelities. At the end he has a chance to make an even better relationship with Marian. This theme is reinforced in many ways, such as the many shots of the two sets cross-country ski tracks side-by-side. At first they are occupied by Grant and Fiona, but later they are abandoned. I believe at one point there's a brief scene of them skiing side-by-side, followed by Fiona suddenly skiing off on her own track. The decision of Grant to build a relationship with Marian is even reinforced by the brief scene of him smoking again after thirty years when both he and Fiona had quit (Fiona briefly mentioned she smoked when she was younger at the start of the film).
So if you were expecting a lot of action at the end, obviously you were disappointed. But the ending resonated with deep themes of human failing, tragedy, compassion, and ultimately hope that left it anything but boring!
I didn't read the ending that way at all. I had thought the reason Grant was "moving on" with Marian was that it was the only way Marian would let Aubrey move back to Meadowlake. I felt Grant made the sacrifice to give Fiona the possibility of being happy with Aubrey, perhaps getting her back out of bed and back on the first floor.
sharewe seem to forget that these two people shared this long life together...with a deep meaningful connection some marriages don't have..hence why he was so frustrated and jealous when Fiona took a liking to Aubrey...anyone that watches this with no reaction even on some minute level...has either never felt that connection with someone or is so mentally poisoned by mainstream movies that im sure they'd be first in line for the microchip implanted cellphone..and not care once that big brother may be watching because now they're cool like their friends *LOL*
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I totally agree with what you said. Wonderful movie with a deep connection and some thought provoking moments.
shareAll I know is this: getting a speeding ticket SUCKS. getting a cold SUCKS. a hangover SUCKS. But the love of your life that you've been married to for decades getting alzheimer's and not being able to remember who you are? I'll go out on a limb here and say that's worthy of being deemed SAD. Alzheimer's, love, relationships and death...none of these things fall anywhere near the "aw damn that sucks" category. I'm not really sure how anyone could feel that way about something like this, unless (as someone else had put it earlier) they have never made a connection like that with another person or they are completely mentally saturated with commercial excrement.
sharei thought my way of putting it was good...id have to say yours i better...hehe
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I found it to be sad, happy, all-round heart-tugging. My mother had it.
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What's your point? What kind of climax would a movie like this actually have? She makes a magical recovery? Grant flips out and euthanizes her? Not all movies need a big climax, and this movie certainly didn't call for one. It wouldn't belong.
I hate it when people say "you didn't get it," but I think that's the case here. And I don't mean on an intellectual level, like that idiot who said you should watch Click. I mean your expectations and evaluation of this movie just doesn't make sense.
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