Did he just hate his daddy. Or was he confused w/his sexuality? sorry i just get what was up with him....
if anybody could explain please do
thanks in advance
Maybe he just felt uncomfortable trying to pick up girls and party with his dad.
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I thought it was a little of both. Maybe his dad is the cause of his confused sexuality? He just kind of watches his 2 guy friends have their way with Christie. Note: all this comes from me not reading the novel (haven't gotten around to it yet).
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We have no idea what Tim's father did to him in the past. your meant to fill in the blanks. in the novel it's hinted at that Tim is curious or at least bi. in any case, Tim's father is a sad alcoholic.
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BEE has kind of said in interviews that he relates to Tim's character the most because of the father issues and because he himself has never firmly stated his sexuality. It has to be a mix of both reasons why Tim acted like he did.
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You should know that I have not read the book but based on the movie I see this completely differently.
To me, Tim is a petulant child who is pissed at his father for his actions toward or previously toward his mother. They make it seem like his father had screwed the mother over somehow and that little Timmy just didn't care for that. He also struck me as being very resentful for the time that he spent with his father for not having actually spent time with him previously, like Dad was too busy for him years before and now Son can be a snarky little *beep* over it. Just seemed that way to me.
The dad was a drunk obviously and I have no idea what occurred in the marriage or divorce but I do know that his son was a *beep* who needed to get knocked all the way to the airport. His father was TRYING, that was the part that got me was that it didn't seem like he was forced but like he actually wanted to know what his little boy was up to in life and god forbid you crack a joke at your kid's expense when he is either too dense to figure out he was being hit on or too much of a coward to admit to what he may have been (bi/gay/whatever) to the person who supplied him with both life and obviously the financial means to enjoy it. He could have laughed and turned it back on the father and moved on but instead he overreacted like a punk.
He just disgusted me because he was never honest but he didn't mind being the judgemental twerp that he was.
I agree Profundity, while it's clearly implied that his father may be an alcoholic, autobiographical to BEE or, overall the screen depiction of Tim was far too resentful and ungrateful to muster any sympathy from me.
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What I think. His dad was trying to be his best friend. They were in the bar and the dad was hitting on those women. Wow I couldnt see me and my dad doing that.
shareYeah, awkward. And at his age it just came off as kind of sad. I think his dad was probably a drunk and a jerk who never made time for his family when it mattered most, and years later he thinks he can just make up for it with a trip to Hawaii. Too little, too late. Tim obviously felt no emotional connection to his father at all, and that made me really sad. Imagining his father dying old and alone with no family to care, always wishing he'd made more of an effort. And his son being resentful to the bitter end, then doing the same thing to his own children some day. Hug your kids damn it!
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