Could have been much more emotionally involving.

I really couldn't understand what Jerry saw in Pookie. Right from the beginning, she came across as extremely socially awkward, rude and annoying. There was nothing endearing about her at all. Her physical appearance wasn't anything to get excited about, either.

If I was a young guy on the way to university and I was accosted by a girl like that with her weird come-ons I would have given her the cold shoulder right away.

I suppose the tragedy of the movie was that Pookie couldn't change her ways and lost her chance at happiness because she drove Jerry away with her oddness, but the tragedy was all one-sided. I felt that Jerry was only benefiting from the breakup and any bad feelings he had were only short-term and based on a slight guilty feeling. There was no sense of loss on his part. You get the feeling that 10 or 20 years later, Pookie is either living alone with 20 cats, in an asylum or dead by her own hand and Jerry, leading a normal life, looks back on the relationship and shudders with relief that he dodged a bullet.

I got mixed up with a weird, Borderline Personality-type woman in college, too, but at least mine was fascinating and quite attractive. She certainly didn't come across as a 7th-grade class clown. These kinds of emotionally damaged people usually present themselves as very charming and alluring at first, not off-putting and gauche.