I didn't like Samantha at all. I felt she was really pushy and a b*tch. I actually like him a lot better with the woman he slpet with in the woods.
I felt personally, the actress who played Samantha was not that great of an actress.
Money..Sex..Money..Sex..Cat..-Edward Cullen
i didnt care much for her either. she was very pushy and if she understood ben at all she'd realize that she just has to let him go on his trip by himself. i felt she was really insecure with herself and their relationship. even when they were breaking up she had the selfish thought about how she was the woman who left her fiance who had cancer. i didnt like her. i love the woman in the woods too.
shareI thought Balaban was excellent; she had a difficult role and despite not liking her character very much, I thought she played it extremely well.
shareYou were supposed to hate his wife. That's how the character was written.
I thought that the actress was pretty good since she could make the audience hate the character in that way.
yeah, as soon as she branded him a Nihilist, she was annoying But like you said that was the idea, to make her annoying.
shareI didn't really like her that much either, but the thing is, I still felt sorry for her when he cheated on her. She may have been a bit unlikable, but she was still his fiancee and he betrayed her by sleeping with another woman.
shareNot to mention wishing he could have slept with the horse woman. It showed he didn't have as much character as the makers wanted us to believe. Yeah, he'd been dealt a lousy hand, but he still showed a tremendous lack of ethics.
This will be the high point of my day; it's all downhill from here.
I don't think you were meant to dislike her per se, but it was supposed to be obvious that they didn't belong together.
share@JoeGPM - I agree. You aren't supposed to loathe her entirely but you should see easily that they don't belong together. Although, I kind of disliked her near the end when (spoilers, I guess) she worries how people will think of her, more than the fact that she isn't marrying the guy she was supposed to be in love with.
"Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become."
It's a tricky role in that you need to see why he would want to be with her. If she's horrible, than he's an idiot for wanting to marry her. But if she's perfect, than he's an idiot for not wanting her. I think the screenplay was pretty fair to her. She was concerned, a bit nagging, and of course frustrated that he won't help himself in the usual way.
shareThis is what I love about the film. People, whether consciously or unconsciously, are always thinking about how things will affect them. Most people watch a scene like this and think poorly of the fiancee, whereas I recognize the realism and humanity in such a statement, and that just makes he film even better.
shareI didn't like her either. I couldn't stand her incessant "When are you coming home? Come home." She just completely didn't get him. I was hoping for some kind of redemption in the end, when she finally understands why he had to go on the trip, but she didn't even get that far. Ultimately all she cared about was herself. But I didn't like Ben's cowardly move of deciding to marry her just because he "ran out of reasons not to", either. That was pretty unfair for her.
I only do it with superheroes.
Not at all. What did she do wrong? Nothing apart from some annoying traits. He was a complete DOUCHE and, as the movie was about him, it totally sucked. Wasted time on another crappy movie; someone should invent an app where I get a time refund spent on *beep* like this
shareI think that was the point. The movie meant to portray her as unlikable.
The movie’s message is that people should do what they want to do, what they dream about. Not follow society’s norms, not listen to other people. But do what you want. Not matter how unusual your desires might be. He tellingly reads “Ulysses” in classroom, a poem that contains this message.
And the movie hinted, during an opening monologue, that Ben didn’t really like Samantha that much. He waited forever to propose to her, and he did so because he ran out of reasons not to propose. He probably just also wanted a wife because that’s what he was supposed to do, not really because he wanted her. Her unlikable personality, or the way she treated him, helped convey the idea that he doesn’t really like her; or the two of them were not meant for each other.
Her leaving him at the end signifies one of the ways in which he learned to release things that he didn’t want in life; she was something he had just because he felt he was supposed to have a wife.