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This book/movie terrified me.

posted 10 years ago by rj_88
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I read the book when I was a senior in highschool. Man, I that was back in '07 and I remember telling my teacher that the book resonated with me because I didn't want to end up like that!

I worked at a fitness club att he time and the amount of middle aged, sad couples who only added to me being scared of commitment. I'd talk to the husbands and they always warned me of marriage. I'd see the wives screwing around with personal trainers.

This book and movie definetly started it all though for sure. Ever since then, I have always been scared of commitment. I just never wanted to end up like "them", ya know?

[–] MrBlondee 10 years ago

Sure, I get what you're saying but this movie is a lot deeper than just that. Also, these were still a young couple who had children (too) young, not middle aged.

[–] IcingOnTheCake 10 years ago

They were a middle aged couple during the story for the time period.
It was somewhat about feeling humdrum.

It should teach everyone to look for happiness in something you have.

[–] MrBlondee 10 years ago

Please elaborate. They were being called a "young couple".

[–] IcingOnTheCake 10 years ago

I don't remember typing that post so I can't tell you exactly what I was thinking. I'm guessing I meant it more to be that they were a comfortably established couple.

I haven't read the book and it's been awhile since I saw the film. They would have been a young couple in comparison to Kathy bates and her husband. They also were probably a young couple, just recently married, in the flashback scene when they had purchased the house.

I remember a birthday scene for Frank during the movie but don't remember an age being given, was it? I guess them to be about 30 or early 30s. I know he'd been in the military. Was college mentioned?

30somethings in their time with 2 school aged children, a house in the suburbs, and an office career I'd say was beyond a young couple but not yet middle aged, comfortably established suits them.

[–] lisaboots 10 years ago

I reject the notion that the central issue in the movie was their commitment to each other or the having of children at a ("too" - who's to say?) young age. In my view, the central issue had to do with identity and personal fulfillment and the couple's failure to achieve either. The children added the weight of responsibility (but also one of the few items that seemed to contribute any joy to them). In the end it boiled down to the choices made and the reasons for the choices. The "comfortable security" that they settled for was ultimately empty and an entrapment.