Ray told Lila to get a used single wide, but the trailer being delivered was new, and it looked like a double wide. This would imply that Lila put some of her money down to help buy the house, as she offered Ray earlier in the movie.
Am I the only one who noticed this?
I was wondering that too.
shareNo. Just before Ray gives herself up, she hands the money to Lila and tells her to get the single wide because she didn't have enough money for the double wide.
shareIt really does look like they were delivering a double-wide, though. Maybe the company made a mistake, and I'm sure Lila wouldn't point it out to them.
shareI assumed Lila kicked in the difference from her Lays can of money.
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Same here. It sure looked like the same home arriving on the truck in the brief glimpse we get, so I think that's the inference the director wanted us to make.
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Before the last smuggling run, Ray had just gone into the trailer store and interrupted the young couple and made a payment on the double on the condition it got delivered the next day. I think another payment was going to be due on delivery. It seems they should have delivered the double wide the next day but then taken it back when they didn't have the final payment.
shareYES! She did have money (from smuggling) and didn't want her baby to be raised alone out by her. The boys together would be perfect (she thinks) and she did ask, twice, how many rooms....so.
Ray gets out of jail and finds happy family in a roomy (with wall to wall carpeting) double wide.
Lila paid the extra bucks, no?
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That was awesome.
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I agree with the person who said that the double wide is left unanswered, life is good but not that good. The truck is delivering what Ray said she wanted, but the question of the final payment is not answered. Her children are save, she's evened the balance between Lila (for getting her kicked off the reservation) and life continues. She's given up her quest for the double wide with the jaccuzi, but she has a friend who will take care of her children.
Struggle and the inter play between women and their care for children. As for why Lila didn't take her child back earlier (as asked in another question), Lila was so low in confidence she couldn't see her way to even think she deserved her own child. Grief from the loss of her husband? Not really explained but surely evident in how she acted.
Excellent movie, glad somebody told me to watch it.
I lean toward thinking that it WAS the double-wide. I watched on DVD and went back and compared the two scenes and it was the same unit. I think Lila did pay the balance (above and beyond what Ray gave her to buy a 'good, used single-wide with good insulation.') I think since Ray was going to jail partly for her, it made sense. I can agree with those that say it's too neat, clean, and 'happy-ending' for this kind of movie; but it didn't come without sacrifice, so it's not quite 'movie-of-the-week' in spirit.
shareNo, I think you're wrong there. What was delivered was a brand-new single-wide, with all the mod cons and excellent insulation.
The double-wide looks basically the same, only it's double the thickness - what was delivered was a single-wide, as I understand it.
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Watch the DVD. They used the SAME home in the beginning and the end. That's all I could tell.
shareYes, but a double-wide comes in two sections - a single-wide is one section.
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True, but when watching this last night I noticed the side we saw was covered with plastic and such, not siding. I looked up the road to see if the other half was behind it, so I'm guessing it was the double-wide. I'm sure you've seen them being delivered on the highway. Single-wide, all siding. Double-wide, half siding, half protective covering.
I see the overly happy ending part, but on the other hand, if Lila paid the difference (only $1000 if I remember what last happened with the seller correctly?), that would show she was ready to make sacrifices now too, for her child and for her friend.
Incredible movie about what it would REALLY be like to have no good choices left, and how things can change when someone makes a choice that is hard, but right.
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Exactly, They were delivering one half of the double wide. Lila must have paid the balance.
It's possible that Lila kicked in her own money for the double wide, hoping that Ray would let her and the baby stay there. Either that or maybe they just figured no one in the audience would notice it was a double wide.
shareYes, they delivered the double wide. I watched very carefully, and the 1/2 that you see delivered at the end is the same 1/2 that you see in the beginning of the movie, implying Lila kicked in the balance due on the double wide.
Excellent movie! I love it when I find these hidden gems, and I can't believe I missed this one at the Oscars (not that winning an Oscar makes a movie good).
This is precisely what I love about these kinds of endings: we can't know for sure, and we can reasonably imagine and discuss points for and against. I so much prefer endings that are somewhat ambiguous, rather then those tied up with the neat Hollywood bow. This way, depending on my mood and attitude, I can write my own ending.
Right now, I hope they got the double-wide - it sure looked like it to me. Tomorrow, or next week, I may be just as convinced that that truck was going to a different address. Either way, Lila, T.J., and the little kiddies seem alright. And Courtney Hunt seems to have enough faith in her audience to leave the ending unresolved… and more true to life.
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