I don't see how they were friends in the first place. Showing flashbacks you see most of the time, when they were talking to each other, they couldn't even look at each other!
99% of the time--past and present--they hated each other's guts.
whats your point genius
shareHer point, genius, is that these girls hardly seemed to have anything even close to a friendship.
Respect what you have 🌌
They were A toxic friendship, that simply got use to each other being friends, rather than be friends. I think the ending was the dagger in their relationship though.. The second person that answered on the thread as right.. Only A sixth grader would ask why they were friends still.. I have plenty of old old friends that I go way back with, that took me into my late 20s to part ways with.
shareThey must be two most obnoxious characters in the history of cinema.
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They killed his second cousin. Big mistake.
To be or not to be? Not to be.
I agree with the OP, they weren't believable as ever having been friends in the first place.
If that friendship ended, it was long before what we saw in the flashbacks. I did not glean even a hint happy nostalgia in their conversations, their looks or their actions. There was simply something missing, and I can't quite figure out exactly what it was. In every single moment throughout the film, I saw nothing but resentment and/or disdain. Neither one had any compassion for the other. They were perpetually annoyed. It seemed like the main thing making either one of them miserable was the other one! If, at any given time, Catherine would have left, they would have been able to stop staring and crying at each other. Instead they chose to suffer... funny thing, they were physically together, but completely alone in their individual suffering.
They were not friends, and Virginia was right, at least as it pertained to them: not friends = enemies. They acted like enemies. Maybe frenemies, if we're being overly generous.