The more we find out about the wife, the less sympathetic she becomes. Somebody on the board said she did not need to be forgiven. She had done nothing wrong. That doesn't come through...she had a lot to answer for but her family can't express that to her so it makes them all dysfunctional in their grief.
I agree, and I feel like that's the point. I definitely didn't find her sympathetic at all (mostly because of her children; it's clear that George Clooney's character was an absent partner), but she was already gone so it didn't matter either way. If she had been conscious/alive at the time of this story, it would have been about the husband, a cuckold/victim and his mean wife who had betrayed him, and the impact it all had on the family, deciding how and when to confront the wife each in their own way. But since the wife was totally unavailable to be confronted and also unavailable for anger or forgiveness, what does her husband/kids do with their anger? Where should they direct it? I loved that it was a story about a family where each member had been operating separately for a very long time, coming together and confronting grief and loss with no one (alive) to blame, and how even though they are all dysfunctional, they manage to pull together anyway. And the backstory of the Haole (white) family who owns a major part of Hawaii is just great--they have been operating independently of the culture and community for generations, just like each family member is doing on a smaller scale.
I love this film...saw it when it first came out, and it still sticks with me.
Okay see...I was wondering on another thread...
So this was not her first affair...
They're not Haole; they descend from Hawaiian royalty. Matt uses that term as a metaphor ("...we're Haole as *beep*
shareSound unsympathetic, but I agree that these girls and her Dad were going to be a better family without her. They should grieve her loss, but she was about to tear two families apart.
"The end of the shoelace is called the...IT DOESN'T MATTER!"
If she were not comatose, she would have had her story to tell, I did wrong, but this is why, and you did wrong too, and so on............. I actually felt sorry for her
Darkness lies an inch ahead