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Some parts in the movie dont make sense!(possible spoiler)

posted 18 years ago by chicagoridge8
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1. How they get together. Ok they are at a Cubs-Sox game and she basically says NO to go out for a drink with him. Then out of no where they are living together.

2. She basically tells her friend(or sister I think) that she didnt wanna break up with him. But wasnt she basically TRYING to get back with him? by bringing guys over, walking around naked, etc? Then when Vince makes the dinner and wants to talk to her, she says she doesnt feel anything.

3. The ending, I hate when movies leave you thinking. I thought they would get back together, but in the end they don't. Why did she change her mind, didnt she want him back? Plus going by the end you can kind of know that they dont get back together in the future, they both grew up and grew apart and are doing different things

Wow alot of stuff that doesnt make sense, anyone have any answers?

[–] baudelairesmuse 17 years ago

"I hate when movies leave you thinking."

LOL

[–] TheScottman 17 years ago

Yeah I'm really enjoying that quote myself.

How was that suppose to help your case

But for number 3 I thought they would at least give it another try, because when she said something like "When you leave home you think you're going to find something better, but you miss it." I believe that was close, but that always gave me the feeling that she was talking about their relationship and not the city.

That she got what she wanted and it turned out it wasn't what she wanted so she left, then she did realize he did change and he could change, so they could work.

but I do love endings like this, when what happens after the credits is a debate not a poorly constructed "epilogue".

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[–] lievlife38 16 years ago

This movie held a real life quality... so even though the name was the BREAK UP doesnt necessarily mean the ending would fit the title. Many people i think, expected a break up and then a reunity of the two. I also felt this way. Instead it left you hanging to believe what u wanted to believe...which is what made it great in a way.

[–] s_m_ob 16 years ago

I just watched this for the first time and the only thing I don't get is that they say neither one of them can afford the mortage by themselves, but then Brooke quits her job and travels??? That makes absolutely no sense to me!

"Cause we screw boys like whores on tequila!"

[–] KAnnD86 16 years ago

The sale of the condo probably gave her enough money to travel.

Not that I didn't know the movie was about a break-up, but I was kind of surprised when Brooke said she didn't feel the same way. I thought all along she was trying to get him to change, trying to make him jealous, hoping he would do exactly what he did - express his feelings and say he appreciates her. Then when he finally did, she says she doesn't feel the same way.

This movie, as funny as it was, was also very sad. They broke up for stupid reasons. Even though they both loved each other and their relationship basically worked (up to a point), they kept hurting each other and pushing each other further away. It was sad to see. I guess it's realistic, but still sad.

Tomorrow's just your future yesterday!

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[–] mate_73 15 years ago

1. The montage sets up how they got together over the months.

2. She was trying, but she began to realise that he was too stubborn, and he wasn't trying to compromise, which is what irked her in the first place. The dinner was just a cover up for the stubborn behavior was would show up eventually.

3. Women base EVERYTHING on their feeling. She was no longer comfortable with his stubborn behavior, and his smile at the end was just like the dinner he cooked earlier, just a cover up to mask the eventual stubborn behavior. In her mind, all he wants to really do is break her heart, and she wants him to make her feel good.

THE IMDBLACK MAN

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[–] KongKongAGAIN 15 years ago

1. It's just a showing of how they got together. What confused you?
2. She doesn't want the relationship to end, but feels, by breaking up with him, she can leave him lonely and frustrated enough to change his way.
3. Yeah, it sucks when you have to think... The ending wasn't even all that "thoughtful" — would you have preferred a marriage, or something? More power to you: demand that movies deliver to you the crap everyone is rightly sick of.

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[–] joyceday 12 years ago

As to why Brooke rejected Gary after he finally did what she wanted him to do throughout the movie, I have been at that point where you tried anything and everything to make a relationship work and it gets so frustrating that you get to the point where you can't let yourself care anymore because it hurts too much. If Gary had shown up for that concert things might have been different but why should you have to beg someone to care about you? I too would have wanted Gary to help me without having to be asked and want to do it. I would have wanted him to appreciate me without explaining it to him for isn't that what a relationship is all about? I think that she had laid it all out for him but he didn't listen and her schemes were a last ditch effort to hold on to something that she really didn't truly want or need anymore.

[–] cbartal 12 years ago

Spot on joyce.

Most guys are emotionally lazy and infected with a certain degree of the Peter Pan principle.

I am, in many respects, one of those guys.

I think the Breakup was a carthartic vehicle for Vaugh to bare his soul and begin redemption.

I loved the film. One of the most realistic, endearing and touching RomComs of all time. I hate to even peg it as a RomCom, it was so good and so effective.

[–] earthmanny 11 years ago

It's been a while since i've seen this movie, but iirc, their differences are illustrated in the very beginning. and i use the word "differences" because i want to try and be non-judgmental, even though i agree with gary's take on things. and while you, joyceday talk about how you would want gary to help you without being asked and want to do this, essentially wanting gary to empathize with your needs and desires, i would make the argument that brooke doesn't empathize with gary's needs and desires either. for example, she schedules the dinner party so close to when gary gets home from work that the guy, even if he had walked in the door and went directly to the shower, wouldn't have had time to groom himself, let alone decompress after a long day of work and steel himself for what almost certainly will be a stressful dinner with their parents. she also is unappreciative that he got her any lemons, and instead is angry that he didn't get the correct amount. and in my experience this isn't a male vs female thing, but there are some people who prefer to clean up after a party and some who prefer to deal with it in the morning. neither person is wrong, but imo the "after the party" person should acquiese to the morning person, because the morning person is going to be miserable being forced to do it at night. then there was the thing about the laying out his clothes, as if he was a child. first off, men don't usually like being treated like children and 2nd, that was for her benefit, not his, so why should he be appreciative?

anyway, great movie because it makes you think. i'm still thinking about it years later.

[–] joyceday 11 years ago

They had a dishwasher so it wouldn't take that much time to get the dishes in there and why would she be happy that he brought her three lemons when she wanted 12? As for the dinner being close to when he got home if they had it much later it would have lasted all night and if he didn't like her laying out his clothes he should have said so. My husband likes me to do that and I'm the opposite thinking dress yourself you're a grown man, LOL! What Brooke needed was a man who didn't need to be worked on such as the man who asked her out at the gallery. He was so much more her style than Gary and Gary needed a woman much more like him. The problem was they didn't fit from the get go and attraction can only last so long without something more substantial underneath it.

[–] Phoenix-Locust 11 years ago

Well to answer chicagoridge8's questions:
1. Well, he was charming and she probably found his forwardness attractive. He probably wore her down and she couldn't resist - happens like that sometimes.
2. She obviously didn't want to break up with him - women say *beep* like that all the time in the hopes of the men fearing losing them forever and declaring undying love to them. She played the female game of get your ex-partner/spouse jealous but at the end of the day she realised that she had in fact out grown him, therefore could not get back with him - he was in fact, too late.
3. Please refer to number 2. - she had outgrown him by then, even though by the end of the film he had in effect grown up (realised he treated her selfishly, not only her but took his older brother for granted to, etc....) that is why they may get back together - she grew some balls by dumpibng him for good (she was a bit of a pushover) and he finally grew up.

[–] leobourne 9 years ago

1. It does. They can't show an entire relationship through a movie. That's why they show a lot of pictures of how they grew to be together.
2. She was trying to get his attention and he was too self centered to notice. By the time he realized that he should also give in a relationship instead of taking, it had drained her out emotionally. She couldn't do it anymore. She wanted to rediscover life.
3. The idea is that a movie ending could be anything. They do hint that they still like each other a lot. There is a lot of possibilities that they will come together again. They could also be great friends, because they really liked each other.

All of it totally made sense.