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Question about 2nd 1/2 - SPOILERS- only if you saw film

posted 16 years ago by noralee
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Much as I liked the film and the acting, and got really caught up in the romance -- I got a bit confused.

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Are we supposed to think that she was manic in part 1 and depressive in part 2? And that's what contributed to the break up? She seemed strong and independent in part 1 (and less into him then he is into her), then she is lying and crying and can't get out of her room hardly in part 2. What happened to her nursing school? O

r did I miss an explanation for what I'm misinterpreting?

[–] boyd-colin 16 years ago

Personally I feel like she wasn't necessarily happy with the breakup, for whatever reason it was. And then the way his life took off during the year apart and he started growing up while she kinda stagnated made her really upset.

Maybe that's why she arranged the books in her room to make it look like she was really busy with work, etc?

[–] princethomas 16 years ago

I think Boyd-Colin is basically right.

I don't know that she was specifically Manic Depressive. I just think by the next year she was kind of stagnated and he was kind of more successful so, theres a tid bit of jealousy perhaps. But also, hes probably a better version of himself at that point so she probably was missing that relationship.

An excellent movie though. I saw it in March so I don't remember all the details so well.
-T

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[–] Shadow1517 15 years ago

I didn't feel like she was pressing him to rekindle, it felt like he was as well to me. He put her in alot of situations and made jokes that would tend to possibly start up the romance. He kissed her, agreed with photographer when she called her his girlfriend etc. During sex scene, she seems to just want it to be sex, while he wants it to be romantic. It is clear she does have feelings but perhaps she is trying to keep the sex just sex, to not confuse herself all the more. Very complicated and real relationship portrayal on the screen, I loved it.

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[–] cawylie 13 years ago

"Lastly, I think what contributed to the breakup was the distance. Not really neither of them. I mean, that's the whole point of the movie. It can't be anything else. Then that wouldn't be the point of the movie."

^ This. ^
The first half of the narrative establishes their relationship while the second focuses on the dissolution and potential continuation of it, which occurs a year after the events of the first half of the film. (It was filmed that way as well.)