I don't buy it.. - The Firm (1993) Discussion

[–] gabby_bm 12 years ago

It was pretty hard for his wife to wrap her head around as well. ("Who DOES that?")
Anyway, she was hot, on an island of fantasies far away and a complete an utter stranger he would never see again and certainly willing to do nasty, freaky sex-things that are above his wife's pay-grade.
A bit of a stretch, but not so much that it made the plot device completely implausible.

"Oh that's nice, sweetie" = Grandma's version of "cool story, bro"
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[–] reckless_life 12 years ago

Well in the book you can see that he really has been working his backside off, working 16 hours a day and that time with Avery at the bar was his first time to relax in quite some time. Things also haven't been great with his wife etc.

It's also written that the first woman he meets in the bar with Avery is really slutty and desperate to sleep with him, something which isn't really portrayed in the movie. When he goes to the beach to escape the bar he see an exotic native woman (I'm guessing a mulatto) with a sultry vibe completely different to the one he just met at the bar, so he falls for her. She doesn't admit to be a prostitute either.

In the film she was a white woman and I think the fact that she was a native in the book caught his eye, it was like he wanted to try something different and she was the complete oppositie of the loud slutty woman he just met in the bar.

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[–] siobanphotogirl 11 years ago

That last paragraph makes him sound like Hugh Grant propositioning Divine Brown: "I've always wanted to do it with a black woman. That's my fantasy."

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[–] lenlarga 10 years ago

In the film she is a native woman also.

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[–] matrix5904 11 years ago

I dunno, they pretty much just had a passive-aggressive argument before he left. His wife supposedly ending the discourse with an ironic "enjoy the Cayman's"...

So he gets there, sees a woman being battered, supposedly raped and slowly, unsurely has a moment.

If he wanted to cheat in the way of a banal plot device as senselessly as you all claim then he would have done it with the woman at the bar (who was also a stooge reading the subtext by the way).

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[–] matrix5904 11 years ago

I dunno, they pretty much just had a passive-aggressive argument before he left. His wife supposedly ending the discourse with an ironic "enjoy the Cayman's"...

So he gets there, sees a woman being battered, supposedly raped and slowly, unsurely has a moment.

If he wanted to cheat in the way of a banal plot device as senselessly as you all claim then he would have done it with the woman at the bar (who was also a stooge reading the subtext by the way).

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[–] spookyrat1 10 years ago

It certainly didn't strike me as being an unlikely situation, given that even nice guys cheat on their wives. Probably more unlikely, but I'm willing to go with it, was the scenario of the Firm setting the whole situation and him up, so they might have future leverage on him.

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[–] Zanderio 10 years ago

Sometimes you just gotta fck her in the pussy.

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[–] pinkybanana2000 10 years ago

Neither do I. Plus, the setup was so cheesy, he should have seen it coming a mile away. No woman will offer you sex just for helping tape her ankle. Wouldn't she favor her body at that point? Wouldn't she be scared that her thug boyfriend will come back? Puleeeze!

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[–] lenlarga 10 years ago

The woman portrayed herself as poor like him, selling herself for prostitution in order to get money to buy nice things. Mitch can relate to her in a way he can't relate to Abby, so he falls for the seduction.

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[–] I_Created_U 10 years ago

He was a man after all... Most of us don't need much of a reason to succumb to the forbidden fruit's charm.

In French we have this saying "Faithfulness is just a lack of opportunity", and what Mitch encountered on the beach that night was one hell of an opportunity.

People who don't like their beliefs being laughed at shouldn't have such funny beliefs

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[–] janedoe3010 8 years ago

Really, this is a thing? "Faithfulness is just a lack of opportunity" ... Ruh roh.

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[–] I_Created_U 8 years ago

LOL, yeah but don't worry this essentially applies to men. Women are smarter, as far as this is concerned. But not always.

Who can resist being seduced really? And for how long? Everybody has a breaking point i contend and whoever thinks otherwise has never been properly seduced by a beautiful woman/man.

It's just life, i suppose, even if i know a lot might take issue with my statements.

People who don't like their beliefs being laughed at shouldn't have such funny beliefs

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[–] Melton (4486) a year ago

Isn’t it typical for a Frenchman to have a wife and family, but also a selection of mistresses?

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