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(spoiler) I simply couldn't buy this film (and I don't mean purchase)

posted 13 years ago by caprica1999
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I can't buy that someone could get away with calling an ambulance for a plastic doll at the risk of a real person dying at the same time (no matter how sweet the whole town was)

I can't buy a hospital would play along with this

I can't believe a priest with strong religious beliefs would make a mockery of a funeral in a church for a plastic doll

I can't believe that a burial plot, hallowed ground, would be used for a piece of plastic

I cannot believe than every single person would play along in this whole town. noone laughed and pointed. noone ridiculed him.

I categorically refuse to believe anything in this 1 note movie.

I groaned. From the first 15 minutes I knew the whole plot of this movie. Except I thought Bianca would have died in a fire and he starts to cry as he runs in to save her. Turns out it was a lake and he starts to cry.

Come on this was a tedious film with no suspension of disbelief

There was little to be convinced

It's funny a friend of mine was watching this film a couple years back. I heard the premise. Man loves a blowup doll and the entire script was laid out for me. Including the obligatory break down and cry scene at the end. Come one get real.

[–] perfect909 10 years ago

I don't think this movie works if you hold it up to reality, and I don't think it works if you make excuses for it. I think it ONLY works as a fantasy or a fable, more imaginary than Lord of the Rings.

Of course no real town is going to support this delusion to this extent, and folks arguing for that will never convince anyone. But the movie goes so far beyond that. Everybody in town BLENDED INTO THE DELUSION perfectly, gracefully. This movie can't take place in reality, nor even in some fictional reality where we suspend our disbelief and go along with the gag. It can ONLY exist in a fantasy world where no one has REAL problems or REAL psychological damage, where the doctor is EXTRAORDINARILY wise beyond human capacity, where EVERYONE ALWAYS says the right thing, where the minister is TRULY aligned with Jesus and not concerned about what's proper or how things look, where his brother and sister-in-law are INHUMANLY pure of heart and generous, where EVERY AUTHORITY FIGURE is part of the fantasy.

This movie can only take place where Goldilocks meets with three bears and Cinderella is outfitted for a royal ball by magic.

At least, that's what I'm thinking. What do you think?