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So You Mean To Tell Me . . .

posted 17 years ago by acrocker77
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that they ended up together and the scenes of them dancing in the streets, both at the parade and at the end of the movie, was a reuniting? I find that hard to believe. It seemed those scenes were misplaced and only confused the viewers. Maybe it was the two of them as it should have been, but was not. This is the explanation I have come to accept. However, I did think the movie fantastic, much better then I expected. I only wish it ended on the river with him walking away. That would have made this a French film in its truest sense. I feel like everything after that was Delpy's "Americanization" of the film by overextending its welcome. I guess we have rubbed off on her some, so it is to be expected.

[–] grambax 17 years ago

I think the scene of them dancing at the parade was definately in her imagination.

The very last shot, I'm not so sure about. The monologue seems at the start to suggest that they split, but the end of that scene seems to suggest to me that in fact that was a dramatic ploy and that they didn't split. Whether the final shot was meant literally or was indicative of their staying together (or even a flashback), I'm not quite so sure.

I don't wholly agree with you about the ending. I see your point, but I felt the final monologue did provide a "happy" ending but also a slightly jaded and rather realistic take on relationships - very un-hollywood, and rather more French than it might have been. I agree that it did rather meander in its last 15 minutes, but just about pulled it off. It was her scene with Mathieu that didn't quite work as well as it might, but on the whole I was very impressed by the film.

[–] plkldf 17 years ago

"So you mean to tell me" is right!

So you mean to tell me that either of these two loved the other, given how they treated each other, especially given how the Delpy character treated the Goldberg character?

The thing I never bought into was that these two people had been together for two years and that they loved each other.

The scene where the mother and father and sister are all making fun of him in French was totally ridiculous -- no one would do that. The part where they bring out the picture with the balloons was ridiculous -- no one, not the meanest, most depraved parent, trying to betray their kid and wreck their kid's relationship, would bring that picture out! No one. And no one who cared anything at all about someone would send that picture of that person to their parents! No one!! This is not overdrawn, it's badly written.

The business of going to the market -- please please please come with me, it's very important to me, so my father can key cars and we can show you dead pigs -- it's so important to me. Please.

I liked the characterss, I enjoyed all the acting, but the writing was horrible, I think. Some people in the theater with me did like it, so maybe I didn't buy into something that younger folks would buy into (or else maybe they're LESS DISCRIMINATING!!) :o)

[–] Andrew_S_Hatton 11 years ago

So you mean to tell me that either of these two loved the other, given how they treated each other, especially given how the Delpy character treated the Goldberg character?
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The business of going to the market -- please please please come with me, it's very important to me, so my father can key cars and we can show you dead pigs -- it's so important to me. Please.

I liked the characterss, I enjoyed all the acting, but the writing was horrible, I think. Some people in the theater with me did like it, so maybe I didn't buy into something that younger folks would buy into (or else maybe they're LESS DISCRIMINATING!!) :o)

It is a comedy - the characters are deliberately exaggerated!

maybe I didn't buy into something that younger folks would buy into

I am curious about the age plkldf was in 2007 when he wrote that comment.

PS, I am a 64 year old English male -

As to the question about the ending was the the dance a fantasy or did they really split up...

Well .. my take on that is that the script writer, leaves it to the watcher to work it out for themselves and whether they stay together or not - is right, as long as we, the audience have worked it out ourselves.

Very often with films there is no scope for an audience to interpret a film them selves - this time there is.