The film was great no doubt, the end was also good, but I think it would of been better if she didn't go back to her home town and stayed on working as a Nanny and perusing music or even going to the west and music and have some scene when they meat up again.
But yea I get it, at the end she makes do with her promise to go back to the music.
They were both quite confused. Eleanor knew that if she stayed there being a nanny, she's just further avoiding her problems.
A Hollywood ending would've been nice but I liked that we got to see how much of a huge impact they had on eachother, even despite being far away
A Hollywood ending would've been nice but I liked that we got to see how much of a huge impact they had on eachother, even despite being far away
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Eleanor knew that if she stayed there being a nanny, she's just further avoiding her problems.
The ending was unduly abrupt. She had committed to staying until the boy's mother returned from abroad. Then suddenly she decided to leave him in the care of a substitute whom the mother had not interviewed. That would have been irresponsible and a breach of contract even if the boy and she had not established such a close relationship.
Personally I find it odd that she would choose to return to her dysfunctional and unpleasant family but Frank Whaley seems to think that longstanding parental misconduct can be reversed at the snap of a finger. (In his comments on his earlier film 'Joe The King' he says the father's perfunctory "Love ya" addressed to his prison-bound son made up for more than a decade of abuse and neglect.)
This ending also didn't really make sense to me - it was not like she had some unfinished business with her dysfunctional family - it seems like when she left it was pretty final. Also strange that she was staying in the house of her mother and uncle (and probably for quite a while), especially when you recall that her mother wasn't happy for her to stay over at all (at two different occasions).
Also moneywise and out of practical concerns it would have been easier and more wise for Eleanor to remain a nanny in a posh house in NY rather than go back to a dirty house to work at a local store for minimum wage. So I really don't believe the lame excuse of "figuring things out back home", because her "home" did not provide a safe and relaxed environment for her in the first place. It would have made more sense if she indeed found a new job in that hotel of a friend of her far away in the mountains that she was talking about on the bus. And I do agree that she had to go away at some point before things would get really weird and emotional between her and Reggie, just not back home, where things were much worse.
I thought this was one of the most beautiful endings to a film I've ever seen. I listened to the piece-with the really lovely cornet addition-through the entire credits.
shareI think the ending is more real than if they'd made it a happy Hollywood ending... This girl in many ways filled the stereotype of the small-town girl trying to make it big... And how often does that REALLY work out for any late teen/early 20s kids? Sure, you can give me a handful of examples but for every 1 success story, there's probably 100 stories of girls (or guys even) who tried to follow the same path and failed. Life rarely has a stereotypical Hollywood ending... So why should this movie? It would only serve to reinforce the idea that anyone can start from nothing and make it big on their talent alone (and not an INSANE amount of dumb luck). In reality, she'd either have to be really lucky, or know someone who can get her in easier than she could on her own. So why bother keeping that delusional dream alive for teens and 20somethings everywhere??
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