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Why was it so freaking critical...

posted 9 years ago by lulupalooza
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to get his mother admitted to rehab that very day, just a couple hours before his audition? If he had a priceless, life-altering opportunity to audition for a prestigious music school, why didn't he just focus on that primary goal and head to the school after his mother was turned away at rehab?

After all, his mother could've found her cocaine and taken it within the next day or two, in order to surreptitiously obtain admission to rehab under the proposed welfare program. Jesse's character acted with little regard for consequence and with ridiculous desperation, as if there would be no way for him to audition unless his mother was in rehab first...like it was a requirement somehow. It makes no sense to me.

It seems like a disingenuous premise in order to force a thin plot. I am stumped by this oddball flick.

"Don't get chumpatized!" - The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters (2007)

[–] greenpen33 8 years ago

I agree, but I can see the other side as well. Eli states in the film that he has had this conversation with his mom (about her going to rehab) multiple times, and she never follows through with actually going. In his mind he probably thought that if he doesn't get her into rehab THAT day that she wouldn't end up going. Then he'd go to his audition, do well, and then STILL not be able to move to Boston and go to school because his mother would still need him in NYC because she never went to rehab.

Jennie