She was not attractive, winning or pleasant. It seems like such a nice, handsome guy could find a sweeter girlfriend, and yet he pleads with her for a continuation of the relationship, which I find puzzling. Is it because of his low self-esteem?
Why would the director choose a girl like her? I wouldn't expect a cover girl but I found her appearance and manner surprising.
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Also they were living in a back water town.
There has already been a pretty detailed thread about this subject:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1821549/board/thread/224813290
That thread doesn't seem of much use, just a bunch of people arguing subjective criteria (and probably excusing their own plainness).
Thought it was great. Right from the start, David is sitting watching TV in his crummy apartment. She rings the door, and he doesn't even recognize his own luggage which she is returning. He was complacent in the relationship and doesn't like her decision to move out ("so, two years and we're back to dating?") and asks her "are we still having sex?"
WHAT?!?!! And in the second act, David's old man Woody shows exactly where this clueless and selfish complacency was handed down from. Woody got married because his wife wanted to. His wife wasn't really a kind and supportive person, just a person who wanted what she wanted (like David's g/f, "break up, get married, just do something!"). Woody wasn't really ambitious, not aggressive, like the milquetoast David explaining the details of sound equipment instead of really making money and moving product. Woody was a good mechanic, but sold his 1/2 of the biz for $800.
David didn't really miss his g/f, he might have missed having some companionship and sex but she was certainly nothing special in any way. Unfortunately, neither was David. Anyway, this sure beat the g/f that left Vince Vaughn's "Billy" in "The Internship", a smoking hot piece of @$$ that just got fed up with aimless but charming arrested adolescence.
He also used this girl (Missy Doty) as the waitress in "Sideways".
shareI don't think that he made a lot of money as a home theater salesman. Retail isn't that lucrative to begin with, but I also get the impression that a lot of people were taking his advice and then going home and buying the stuff online, bypassing his commission.
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Gee whizz.
Are people really that brainwashed that they cannot buy a female character in a film if they are not a size 8 model?
Maybe, just maybe, David was attracted to a woman with a curvier figure than the women that the MSM continuously shove down our throats as beautiful.
It does happen sometimes you know.
It's not just that though. If it were just about being a little overweight, I'd agree with you. But the OP put it well: she was not "attractive, winning, or pleasant". Whereas Forte is much more attractive and pleasant in general. Yet she was the one rejecting him.
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She's only in one scene pretty briefly--that's not really much evidence that she's "not pleasant".
shareAll we can go on is what we see. If a filmmaker puts a character in one scene, we can assume that we are supposed to "size them up" from that scene. And she did not come across as pleasant.
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I wondered the same thing.
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They are mismatched. Sure, she may have had other qualities, a raging IQ, a heart of gold, a really solid resume, etc. Anything. Sorry, if she had other qualities, it wasn't shown. Frankly, I would have loved to see more of why he may have been attracted to her.
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