Mary Stuart Masterson's character said she never knew her real birthday...i know it's just a movie, but what did she do as a kid and every year when it's your birthday? you put it on a *plethora* of things...
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Well, some families don't celebrate birthdays. Certain religious sects do not and there are cultures where everyone celebrates their birthdays together on a special national holiday.
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true, but I guess I am just wondering what she marked down under DOB, i guess. Being that she was in america and was most likely educated in the country and has job in new york. i do not know if you can just leave it blank. i feelthat it is a scriptual flaw, while it is small.
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I agree with you, mya. She may very well not know her "real" birthday, but one would have to be used in order to successfully navigate modern society. As I recall, she tells Lewis that her birthday is April 1st, and that may be the one she uses for paperwork, though it's hard to believe (even in the case of her beginning as an abandoned infant) that there would be no birth certificate created at some point.
Of course, if she does use April 1 on a regular basis, it brings up another question. why does she hesitate when he asks her? Even a made-up birthday should be second nature after a couple of decades spent using it. For instance, I changed my last name to my mother's maiden name when I got divorced five years ago, and I barely remember what it was like to sign my maiden name, or introduce myself that way.
It's possible that she hesitates simply because it's a sign of intimacy that she shies away from. She isn't ready to share parts of herself with Lewis yet, and she's compartmentalized the casual areas from those that are off-limits. Her birthday is casual on the surface, but the question coming from someone who cares about her brings up all the memories of her childhood, not knowing her real parents, etc.
My two cents...
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This bugged me for the most of the movie... It's a small thing and probably a reason why she doesn't know her birthday... But the fact that she needed one for a passport means she needed her birth certificate (she was in London at the beginning of the film). In that case - she would have had to know her real birthday!
She was adopted, remember? Then the mom died, and the horrible father kept her. Like a pet. During the movie, they flash back to her as a child asking her father when her birthday is, and he looks away from the TV long enough to tell her that she doesn't have one. I'm sure the adoption papers listed a birth date, but if the POS dad never celebrated it with her, she wouldn't know. And since he hurt her so badly when he told her she didn't have one, I'm sure she would not have asked again. It's possible that the adoption papers say that her birth date is April 1, and that's why she uses it. They just weren't very clear on that point. I don't think it's a mistake; I just think that they could have explained it better. So sad.
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