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The Guy At the Truck Stop?


Did she *beep* the bearded guy at the truck stop too?

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they want you to think so because she got up and followed him out of the lounge. But I think that what really happened was that she was going through a metamorphosis and making the decision to turn her life around for her boy, as illustrated when she turned Runner down in the pick-up truck.

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My take was she did not. That hallway the male driver went down was the shower rooms. You have to wait for your shower to open up at a truck stop, paying first, taking a number, and waiting for your shower. In the immediate scene after she followed him down the hallway we see her in a shower by herself. Therefore my take was he was an obvious opportunity for her to partake in an empty emotionless act, or begin turning her life around. This is her revelation in the film where she realizes how empty her life is, and begins thinking of her son.

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@sillykiddo and DigitalRitual great observations, I wasn't sure if she did either but I thought that would have been her last "one night stand." I thought the shower scene was trying to show how bad she felt about the "ONS" with the trucker before she turned her life around...But both of your points seem a lot more logical.

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No, I think she had more taste than that! Case in point: the first guy she shagged (at the beginning of the film), looked like a male model. The guy in the truck stop looked like a member of ZZ Top/a serial killer. She was hot, she could pull any guy. Even the occasionally promiscuous have standards.

It's too cerebral! We're trying to make a movie here, not a film!

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