From a woman's POV, I cannot fathom why Angela married Vince - a divorced man with two severely handicapped sons. Who in her right mind would take that on? I would have been out of there after a single date.
shareI have to agree with you! She said she did this to Nev because she wanted to be "herself" again. Why give that up in the first place?
share^I'm wondering if you bought the fact that Angela wanted to be a professional dancer and this was one of the things she had given up? She didn't look like a dancer and I don't think I believe her.
shareExactly!
She thought she had given up a professional dancing career and felt very sad about it.
She probably felt she was a disregarded painter too, looking for acknowledgment.
I've met a lot of people with misconceptions about their own capabilities.
(and probably I am one of them myself too)
To me, Angela looked like a girl, still, and didn't act adult, didn't take control over her adult life.
She was dreaming and waiting.
But what I've seen of Angela in this movie is: she is soft, she is sweet, has a very nice voice, she's patient and loving with the handicapped sons (who she married in to!), and her daughter looked like a very normal eight-year-old who was well taken care of. She looks like a loving mother!
She was sad over her imagined 'faillures', but couldn't exploit and enjoy her own real qualities.
(the phrase 'low self esteem' keeps popping up in my mind)
My total guess is she looked at the financial freedom it provided them. It doesn't cost a lot to live in the UP of MI with govt. assistance for two kids. She probably liked the freedom from a day to day job...the Vince got her the damn Internet...
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If she had've known what those boys would turn out to be like, she might have had second thoughts. The twins were quite scary; like something from a horror film. Living with them would be a fairly stressful day to day thing. I think most would opt for the boring day job!
shareMy total guess is she looked at the financial freedom it provided them. It doesn't cost a lot to live in the UP of MI with govt. assistance for two kids.
Even if you take money out of the equation, some people are just drawn to such a situation. Think about those people who foster only severely handicapped children. Some like the attention and the ability to have so many feel sorry for them.
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Well, some people also want to save the world, even if it's one child, or in this case two, at a time. Angela may have have a deep need to be needed. Those children needed her and so did her husband. He couldn't take care of those boys by himself. Obviously she had low self esteem, I can see how someone might feel better about themselves after a life of self sacrifice.
shareShe knows no better. She dreams, like all of us.
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