Was really good

Not sure what you mean, but I DO know you sound like a loser.

Agree 100% it was such an emotional movie but in a different way. It wasn't a tear jerker but was still a really sad movie.

I thought this was a really good movie for an independent film. It's a pretty basic movie but great for what it is. I watched on Netflix and just bought it on DVD from Amazon today.

That is part of, if not the major intent of the movie's message; that people's who are somehow psychologically damaged or unstable attract each other. Amy was not by any means a health person. She was indeed pretty and caring for her family, but she also sought relief by going to bars and having sex with strange and often unsavory men.

In the real world, psychological complexes will generally drive a person who feels "unworthy" to self-sabotage by creating problem's in the relationship. Even though Amy may have been able to find the "perfect" man for her, it is unlikely that should pursuit a relationship with him because it would continuously make her feel abnormal. Therefore, she found someone who made her feel normal, someone just as unstable and "weird" as her (she did have some unusual family member, and thus an usual family/life).

When Amy's sister was caught stealing, not only did she not reprimand her, she actually blamed herself. It is very likely that a well-adjusted man with a sense of ethics and responsibility would have criticized her seeming irresponsibility either at that moment, or later on.Therefore, while he boyfriend was unstable and irresponsible, he was at least not judgemental. Even when he degrades her accidentally ( such as with the don't *beep* where you eat comment)he does so in such a crude and immature way that it is clear that it is he who is at fault and not Amy.So then, Amy may have felt safe and normal around his "madness".

If you remember at the very end where the whole "new family" is eating dinner, Amy seems almost sad. She shows that at some level, she doesn't feel that amount of happiness in family is normal. To her, a normal family is a thieving sister whom she takes care of after one-night stands and brother who has cerebral-damage. Therefore Amy herself, is not normal. She is essentially an emotionally broken woman who panics upon meeting her former school acquaintance at the store.