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just when i heard about this film in a magazine I imagined it's going to be like this. and I get really surprised that after all it happens to be like this.
It feels like someone slapping my face...I don't know how come no one hate it
Why is there nothing at the end about the girl?
What happened to her? That's an unresolved end for you.
And, no cars pass by that intersection during the whole crash scene, except the one - and he doesn't HEAR it?! Not believable!
I want my money back - depressing, pointless and with a horrible ending. I was hoping it would be uplifting... the young fellow would influence the old guy.
I hated this film. Utterly pointless - other than sucky things can happen and keep happening. I mean really, what was the point?
You know what they say... no one with missing teeth wears an Armani suit.
What are you saying, this film was GREAT and there was nothing wrong with the ending, albeit okay maybe they could have shown the girl.
Obviously, Jacques gets a 'good heart', literally and metaphorically. He would have sold the bar and given half to the girl, who he had grown fond of. She would have had a new start in life.
The film isn't about the girl, it's mainly about Jacques and Dano's charactor Lucas, how somebody with a good heart changed a cranky old cold hearted man, and that change came about BEFORE the accident. Jacques ends up living in the sun with his 'woman', and has his friend's heart beating inside him. Beautiful imo.
Hopefully the goose had a happy ending too, maybe became the girl's pet.
No offense but, Seriously, how blindly optimistic can you be ?
I know things can happen suddenly, but like this fashion and coincidentally ? It's just too much, and not showing the Girl's(April) ending is stupidity.
Anyhow, enjoyed the drama, until the director tried to make it dramatic.
I'm with Cornelia on this one...Great summary, and exactly my interpretation.
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No. What sucked about this movie was that the ending wasn´t depressing enough - if you asked me. I wanted them both to be bitter and alone until the end. The ending with the beach and everything was just too much.
shareMy own personal theory is that Jacques dies on the operating table and the entire ending scene in Martinique is a dying hallucination. Well not a theory so much as a way of looking at the ending that makes it bearable.
I was hoping it would be uplifting... the young fellow would influence the old guy.
The whole film is so full of cliches and cheap melodrama that the ending was just the final nail in the coffin.
Only Cox's portrayal of Jacques (at least for the first 3/4 of the film, before the ridiculous, predictable "hard man turns soft" finale) makes it watchable. Otherwise it was a great disappointment.
I totally agree with Edward. The heart transplant plot - in the end - was completly stupid.
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