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Premise and characters (spoilers) question

posted 11 years ago by JayCeezy
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These characters are 30-something (maybe 40-something?), yet single, attractive, funny, kind, loving, caring...and none of them seem to have jobs, means of support, or obligations of any kind. They hang out as long as they want at a WA lakefront cabin?!?!! Lots of movie "shorthand" for what "good" people they were (vegan lesbian, emotionally damaged by loss of a brother, British).

So...the question: If it turns out Hannah is not pregnant, do Iris and Jack and Hannah all still hang out and have fun and try to raise a child together?

This script seems like it was written in 1991, with a "Murphy Brown" type of "I do what I want, you're not the boss of me, I need to feel fulfilled" vibe.

[–] emvan 11 years ago

Iris had an apparently fairly stressful job that she got time off from. It's not clear how much time the movie encompasses, but it's possible to guess. The first two-thirds appears to happen over a couple of days. It only gets ambiguous when you hit the montage of the sisters reconciling while Jack is camping out. It's quite possible that Iris went back to work for a week and came up the next weekend, but they didn't bother showing us that. I can buy that it would take a week for Jack to get his head together, and for Iris to get over her anger at Hannah.

Jack was unemployed by choice because he thought that he'd never get hired again if people hired him now while he was a wreck. He may have been living off of savings for a year, credible if he had a well-paying job (he's certainly smart enough) given that he doesn't seem to buy much of anything.

We don't learn anything about Hannah's job, but if the movie indeed takes place over nine days or so, and she just walked out on Pam, she might be taking vacation days.

Prepare your minds for a new scale of physical, scientific values, gentlemen.

[–] JayCeezy 11 years ago

Thanks for the reply.

Do you think these three will hang out and try again to raise a baby together if it turns out Hannah is not pregnant?

They all seem pretty selfish and self-indulgent. A 40ish lesbian fresh off a breakup who tricks a drunk unemployed neurotic mess out of his semen. A 40ish guy who "is a mess" because his brother died, and has the option of being unemployed, as well as snapping at his friends and making his late brother's memorial party about him and his feelings (instead of respecting the people who came there for his brother, not him). And an attractive 30-something British woman, single and aiming for the brother of the dead guy she used to date, with a high-stress job that would clearly demand her time and attention. Weird to feel empathy for these people. Seems like rich white people problems, middle-aged self-indulgent singles getting drunk and having random sex and hurt feelings at a lake house, like a high-school spring break.

[–] AdvanceIstheMan 11 years ago

I don't know if I'd say they're selfish and self-indulgent. Jack and Iris in particular both seem to be pretty caring people. Jack obviously just took the death of his brother pretty hard and found himself stuck in a rut. Hannah's just getting out of a 7 year relationship which is going to be rough whether or not you're rich and white. Iris and Jack were kinda stuck in limbo with each other because they both believed the other didn't feel the same way and they didn't want to disrespect his brother's memory. The time at the house helped them all work out their issues.

I mean if you didn't care about the story or their problems, there's nothing wrong with that. I just don't personally think any of it reflected poorly on their character.

[–] JayCeezy 11 years ago

Got it, you think they all have fine character.

The question is, do you think they will all stay together and try to raise a baby as some kind of patchwork family, if Hannah is NOT pregnant?