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WTF did this film want to say?


That murder is THE solution to a domestic problem?
Everything worked out fine for the murderes...but the victim was still dead. Game over. No new life. Difficult for the script writers to fix that one...

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That murder is THE solution to a domestic problem?


Well...I don't think that the film's centralized purpose was information about how to handle a domestic dispute...it's a dark comedy about a psychologically internalized desire one would general find absurd but that's actually a common practice in cinema. Take for instance, vigilantism...it shouldn't be something we admire as a society but we do in film because we as audience understand that it's fiction. So why should this be any different?

Everything worked out fine for the murderes...


I think that should be used in the singular...it was one guy. Granted, they all conspired to do it...but it was one guy and it wasn't premeditated. Most importantly her husband seemed to be alright with it.

but the victim was still dead.


I'm sorry but what in this movie gave you the impression that this woman could be rehabilitated...this was vile, malevolent, despicably cruel, selfish, neglectful woman who simply had nothing but contempt for a man she claimed to her life to...she made him miserable, his friends miserable and practically everyone who knew her miserable. She's an unfit mother who simply so self-absorbed that she didn't even deem in necessary to change the diaper of a child she choose to give birth to and even worse she joked about suffocating him.

Game over. No new life.


Why does she deserve one given the context...she not only knew that she was torturing this man but she also engaged in some infidelity...she's a woman who begrudges a man for coughing near the child she claims to care about then has no issue smoking in front of him. Yet, you want redemption for this woman? Why? She had complete knowledge that she of what she was doing...how she was making this man feel and you still can't view this woman as menace?

Difficult for the script writers to fix that one...


There's nothing to fix...I quite frankly enjoyed the film...it has it's problems like most films but it's decent comedy.

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From your more than frightening reply I do understand you enjoyed the film. Maybe you deserve the same "solution"...?
Weapons and retribution, your corner stones in society. A truly horrific nightmare of a world.

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I did not get this film at all.
There was nothing funny.

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I liked the fact that it had a happy ending, it was the biggest surprise of the movie lol as these kind of movies always end up bad for the leads usually

Every movie doesn't have to "say" anything




I don't think you're ready for this jelly 

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"Happy ending"? Are you completely mad? Happy ending? For the wife? The only "happy ending" would be the absolutely correct arrest of the murderers! Have you lost all form of social behaviour?
I am scared for the society we live in when these are the morals you go by.

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Really the murder brought the other two couples closer together.

A lot of first time screenplays have great dialogue and character but poor plotting.

Also, I think Foley wrote this to bash his ex-wife. It was his revenge fantasy.

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So you are saying murder can be accepted if outcome for murderer is beneficial?
Scary world you must live in...

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the movie wanted to say don't get married in the first place. i love the people freaking out over this murder because it's a happy ending. i loved it, i just recently saw gone girl, which was the best movie of last year in my opinion. one thing i really loved was how anti-marriage that film was right to the end which equated marriage to a prison sentence, and here again, boom! a great movie for guys who are stupid enough to want to get married. sure some people end up happy. but today, more than ever, it's a real gamble, and an unwise one for a man. the fact is that this is how a lot of men feel. so this film is also helpful for women--do not act like ward's wife.

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I agree it was refreshing to see a happy ending where the protagonists get away with it. Usually something would have tripped the group up and all their hard work would have been for naught. But they actually all become better couples out of it. Refreshing.

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I didn't really see this movie as trying to give a serious message thematically. I saw it as satirical and over the top. The irony is that the guy in the beginning who seems a little sleazy and has a cruder sense of humor, etc. is the one who falls apart during the cover-up and is wracked with guilt in the end. I think this movie went darker than most movies dare to go, but I don't think that means that the writer/director or those involved with the movie are endorsing the message. The movie was meant to be ridiculous. At least that's how I saw it.

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Maybe you should only be allowed to watch The Brady Bunch. It's a movie for crying out loud!!

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