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I thought the film had a good message 'til the end. Spoilers

posted 9 years ago by InsecureNeuroticControlFreak
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I really thought the film's message was the idea of KNOWING who your soulmate is takes the entire point of living out of life. The beauty of finding your soulmate is you get to find them yourself and fall in love with them as you get to know them. That's romantic. I felt the film was trying to show that having a timer takes that beauty away. Instead, who needs to live? Who needs to experience life? Who needs to date and find yourself? Your timer knows your soulmate. It's ridiculous, and I thought that's what the film was trying to say…

Until the end. The ending basically just turned it into a crapfest.

This is gonna *beep* do for him what "Jade" did for David Caruso.

[–] roueelavsky 9 years ago

I really didn't care for how Oona left Mikey, but I did like that she didn't just decide to chase after her One. She meets him, is upset at who her "one" is, and then randomly meets him later. That's likely close to how she would have "met" him and "fallen" for him without the existence of the timer at all. I do wish that she would have let her guard down with Mikey more and actually had more of a relationship with him rather than just leaving him when she saw that the kid 10ish years younger than him was still immature though.

[–] Frecuencia 9 years ago

The film wasn't trying to say the technology was ridiculous, rather that the concept of how we want love to happen is twisted by the romance in books and movies. You expected the generic romantic comedy ending with a chase at the airport, so you got disappointed, but the movie hints and straight up tells you it won't happen. The mother tells her is just about the rocker image she likes, her father is a believer in the implant and warns her about her mother insisting on a relation that wasn't working. Even her sister warns her about about what will happen when the countdown reaches zero for either.

She was fighting against her destiny, yes, but for the wrong reasons and we are shown many times why Mikey was not her one. Also Dan and Steph were flirting because he basically wanted to try a girl who was wildly different to him, but they wouldn't have lasted.

That's the point of the movie, that it's not about how you fall in love and how many relationships focus so much on this idea that they stay in doomed relationships

I thought the film had a good message 'til the end. *Spoilers*

I thought the film had a good message 'til the end. Spoilers