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IAN is a total jerk (Spoiler Alert)


Soon after the departure of his love, (for which he could be even highly blamed for) he cried on another girl's shoulder and kissed her right away!
What kind of animal does that?!

If the rules you followed brought you to this, of what use were those rules?

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I also was shocked by that scene. My guess is that the author wanted to show that Atheists/Scientists have no moral values (which is of course *beep*

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Could you not think for once that he was emotionally broken and karen gave him a crying shoulder and sympathies.

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It wasn't even ''right away'', there were a gap of several days, when his partner called him, she had already reached the point of the research they were trying to reach since the beggining of the movie

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What Ian says later in the movie to Karen basically sums up how easy it was for him to move on. He tells Karen that he knew it was never going to last because he even called Sofi a child. He just never received any closure until what we saw at the end.

To me, it was very evident as soon as Karen showed up that he was impressed with her and they both had things in common. He liked Sofi at first because she was mysterious, but they never saw eye-to-eye. Pun intended.

What I find more interesting is that he tells Sofi she acts like a child, and then when he essentially meets her again reincarnated, she is a child.

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telling his wife that he never had the chance to say goodbye right after being caught fapping to the deceased girl seemed very stupid to me. was that his way of saying goodbye to Sofi?
also he never felt any guilt over Sofi's death which is another reason I found him to be a total jerk.

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That was somewhat strange. However, I am not sure "he never felt any guilt over Sofi's death", while he almost drugged himself to death afterwards.

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yeah, e.g. fresh widows in old India would (have to) just self-immolate - this is morality.

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