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I loved the movie way back when! The funniest part for me was when Ted and Catherine are arguing and she tells him to stop yelling. He says something like, "What's the matter? Doesn't your friend Brubaker ever yell?" and then it cuts to Brubaker yelling his head off.
I'm not going to watch it again, though, for fear it won't be the same and my happy memories of it will be tainted.
Lesson learned - when I was in college I read a book that I thought was fantastic. In later years, I tracked down a copy and reread it. It was a MAJOR disappointment. I honestly wish I hadn't reread it. I'd rather remember it the way it struck me back when I first read it.
It does make sense! And it expanded my thinking about the movie. Thank you!
It does what?
It didn't end exactly the way the book did but I didn't feel like it was an upbeat ending at all. I was expecting the typical Hollywood "save the day" type finish but it wasn't that.
Same here!
Yes, I did feel sorry for him. Not in a pity sense but in feeling his pain. He made some poor choices which turned out to have extremely tragic consequences. He didn't downplay or justify what he did. In fact, in the scene at the police station, he seemed horrified that there would be no legal repercussions and immediately grabbed a gun to try to kill himself. Then he basically stopped living and punished himself by working a dead-end job and cutting himself off from other people.
His anger was entirely believable, too. I've noticed that many, many people turn hurt into anger almost immediately so it didn't surprise me that he occasionally erupted.
His brother knew what he was doing when he named him as Patrick's guardian. That forced him back into the land of the living, with people he cared about. Then he began slowly, slowly, slowly to move toward healing.
Wow! I hadn't caught that but, yes! Those little touches really added to the overall sense of frustration and sadness.
Thanks for posting this. This is the reason I come to discussion boards like this - to have my questions answered and to get new insights.
There wasn't a huge pay off at the end. It's just that in the middle you find out the backstory of this family. Lee's behavior and emotional responses begin to make sense in view of what he's been through. And you begin to understand why his brother made him the kid's guardian.
This movie definitely isn't for everyone. It's slow moving with the character development taking place very slowly, but it makes sense within the context of the story and in view of what real life can be like.
I think it will be more meaningful for those who've been through some seriously difficult life experiences.
I don't know if they left any clues or not. To be honest, I don't think they really cared about what the cause was. I think it was just a device to set up their purpose.
And it seems to me that the writers' purpose was to explore what might happen if two lovers were the only people left on earth. How would their world views shape how they responded to the situation? How would their differing world views affect their relationship?
It's a shame this is labeled as science fiction because it doesn't really have any science fiction elements other than the strange light that preceded everyone disappearing. Calling it science fiction sets it up to fail with people who expect science fiction.