wow great movie
loved it
shareMe too. Thought it was very good.
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same here - impressed me. Made me think. Nice setting in hotel and snow. Not sure about the happy ending - why?
shareWas that a happy ending? I don't think so.
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First off, the man gets his confidence back because he carried his wife to safety, but then the wife just gets up and walks back up the hill to get her skis, indicating that she didn't need to be carried. So her perception of him hasn't changed. Only his perception of himself.
This is further reinforced at the end of the movie because she was the one that stood up and confronted the bus driver, not him. And at the very end of the movie, she asks the bearded guy to carry her daughter instead of her husband, indicating that she still views her husband as incapable.
All this, while the husband decides to start smoking, keeping up the self delusion that he's now masculine again, and has "fixed" things with his family. The juxtaposition of him looking cool and confident in himself while another man carries his daughter behind him is really brilliant.
I loved this movie. Hilarious at times, but very thought provoking around the idea of masculinity and the expectations people have for men.
Yeah, great movie with underlying message. It ends with a question, why wife is not happy with final result of Swedish feminism - a mentally castrated husband...
shareI agree, not really a happy ending, but quite optimistic.
The mother gets off the bus in a panic, leaving the husband and kids behind - basically doing what the husband did during the avalanche, and what she said she'd never do.
Husband feels vindicated, everything's back to a level playing field so to speak.
Not quite sure about him "rescuing" her during the ski run. As you say, she shows she didn't need rescuing, so perhaps they agreed to do that for the benefit of the kids?
Yes, she bolted like a rabbit off the bus, proving that anyone can lose their nerve under certain circumstances. The difference is, he's not going to become a totally unempathetic, sadistic asshole about it and do everything he can to torture her emotionally for the rest of their lives.
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