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Did the Man date Reggie? (spoilers)


I caught "Some Girl(s)" on Showtime's cable channels. I liked Adam Brody in Whit Stillman's "Damsels in Distress" (2011).

The plot of the film involves an unnamed writer, who is about to be married, who seeks out former girlfriends to make amends for hurting them in various ways.

But did the man ever date Reggie, who is the little sister of a childhood friend? We learn that he, at age 16 and when she was almost 12, took advantage of her by kissing her romantically and touching her rear end.

So why would the man ask to see Reggie (unless it was the other way around?) if he never really dated her and doesn't really remember, or ever thought, his previous creepy and inappropriate behavior confused, upset, and perhaps scarred her permanently?

I didn't think the film, as a whole, was that good. Despite claiming that he wants to make amends, the Man struck me as a narcissist who never really grew up and is actually surprised that his former girlfriends are still angry after all these years.

All he does is reopen old wounds. Sometimes, it's better to move on and just leave things alone.

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Good catch, actually.

In my opinion he never really "dated" ANY of the women he was involved with - he merely lied and used them for his own selfish pleasure and "needs". Monogamous relationship "dating" implies some actual mutual reciprocal real feelings for one another. The only mutual feelings for this guy was himself and the serial sexual partners love for HIM, alone!

That's what the whole episode with Reggie was about, I think - and no way "Reggie" would be included in that magazine article truthfully. If he DID include that episode he would merely claim the girl was 14 turning 15 (at the earliest) not an 11 yo just turning 12. I mean, really, telling an 11 year old girl "I'm going to marry you" to cop a feel??? That is pretty psychotic - in that situation.

Ad yet his own ego made him want to see if she would STILL buy his lies - his own spin on that situation and convince her he was still just so "loveable" - as in "I still love me, don't you?"

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