great acting. the chic from the office is such a great actress,hope she gets more work. i thought the film had a realistic gritty feel that was genuine. I'm still wondering if there was an underlying meaning to the story. any ideas ?
i hope you choke on your bacardi & coke!
*Team Landa*
I feel like most of the story relates to positive thinking and the fact that, as Jack says when his meal burns, "whenever there's anything good, it *beep* up". His friend Clyde tries to stay positive about his failed relationship up until the end, when his wife accuses him of taking pleasure in his helplessness. On the other hand, Jack's positive outlook pans out because he and Connie truly care for one another and are making an effort at self-betterment (he with his swimming,cooking and job; she with her intimacy issues).
Just some of the things that were going through my mind as I was watching this fantastic movie unfold. Also, how PSH should be nominated for best actor for every role he plays.
Leaguechamp85...I fully agree. Glorious PSH should have been nominated and won for everything he played. He was a master actor. A true ace in interpreting the full gamut of the human condition. And, he just seemed to be a sweetheart.
I'm so sorry his addiction resurfaced, and he couldn't/didn't get the help he needed. I wish I were there to haul him into a rehab center and keep him there for 9 months, a year, until he was fully clean and feeling better about himself again. He was such a beautiful treasure, and I just think the world is colder and a little less bright without him in it.
Jack was down at the start of the movie, but he kept trying to better his situation by focusing on the positive, using the reggae music and visualization techniques. The woman he meets has recently been through several traumas, but she gives herself a deadline to move on from them. (She says knows she will definitely be better by summer but maybe sooner.) These are both people who refuse to give up on life.
His friend, by contrast, seemed happy and energetic at the start, but because he focused only on the negative (constantly replaying his wife's infidelity in his head) his marriage fell apart.
So I took the message to be that our attitudes shape our destiny. Both good and bad will come our way, but it's how we react to things that matters. Like Jack's burned dinner. He was initially upset because he thought it ruined the night, but eventually his friends helped him see that the only thing ruining the night was his own reaction to the burned dinner, which was in his power to control. We have to let go of the bad and hang onto the good.
Orgies are not too much fun if no one wants to do it with you.
Good thoughts here....thanks.
Life. - The trying of life. Going through what happens in life with the things that are really disheartening. Jack and his GF are easier to see, I was confused with the other couple. Jack's friend seemed to turn away from 'positive' with the tape player? I was quite confused, they both seem like such good people. But maybe that it means in relationships, a move away from remebering that you are loved, is the death of it. I'm not sure.
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