I understand that Olivia had no choice, but it really sucks she just left them behind. They seemed like great kids and I was really hoping that we'd at least see them get reunited.
shareI like the fact that the camera pulls away from Mindy and Randy on the staircase the last time we see them, signalling that we will never see them again.
shareTheir mother sued and won the custody.
shareI found it very odd that the kids had not used myspace, phone calls, or emails to stay in touch. Then later, Facebook.
My cousins had step siblings come in and out of their lives, but then stay in contact through Facebook.
Also, what Mason and his sister went through was traumatic. How could they never bring it up again? Or go through angst because of it? Wouldn't they think about it every now and then? Mason was around 9 to 11 when it happened. He wasn't a baby. He would remember it.
"I found it very odd that the kids had not used myspace, phone calls, or emails to stay in touch."
As far as you know, they did contact them, just wasn't shown in the movie. You may have noticed the movie fast forwards in time to where many moments, even important ones, are left out.
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The onus is not on anyone to do anything except to sit back and watch the movie. As soon as I saw that the camera was zooming out from Mindy and Randy - in an unusual and dramatic camera move - I knew the kids were not going to see them again. It is visual storytelling. That part of their life was over, whether anyone used Facebook or not.
If you became detached, it's because you were not paying attention to what the director was showing you.
"especially not in today's instant information age society."
Ah, so no Shakespeare for you! Or Checkov, or Ibsen, or ..... meanwhile the film got made and won the tremendous respect of critics, the industry, and many audience members worldwide, but Ruben declares that only ADD- approved movies deserve respect.
It's not too late, Ruben, you can retrain your brain to accept and adore intellectual stimulation. It's up to you.
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I quoted you. It was your sentiment. Have the courage of your convictions and be prepared to be challenged on them.
Resorting to profanity is just what I expect from people who waste so much time on a film they didn't like in the first place.
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I don't mind posting about a masterpiece, and it is the only one that has come out in about eight years. Your put downs and profanity do not faze me in the least.
shareThank you Rubymar, you have summed up my exact feelings about this overworked, overhyped, overwrought piece of garbage. I just didn't care. I'm watching the movie, and oh look, another plotline that I'll never understand because the director won't finish it.
I understand that this happened in Linklater's life - he had stepsiblings that he had to leave suddenly and never see again. That's fine - sh!t happens. But to not show the kids three months later, wondering what happened to their steps, to not see them asking their mom if they could call, write, email, anything.
Well, that's just poor storytelling. That's an incoherent narrative.
I want the doctor to take your picture so I can look at you from inside as well.
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I found it very odd that the kids had not used myspace, phone calls, or emails to stay in touch. Then later, Facebook
I grant that the scenario is realistic. I do not grant where you say,
They may have done so, and the film doesn't tell us (it doesn't rule it out, either).
I would have smacked Bill Welbrock on the head really hard if I'd been in the film.
We'll never know, that's the way reality works. The film is an exercise in naturalism, its not a contrived, cliché Hollywood movie where everyone ends up happy.
shareThis isn't reality. It's a movie. Movies tell stories. If I wanted to watch something for almost three hours that goes nowhere, I could just watch my own life.
I want the doctor to take your picture so I can look at you from inside as well.
I felt bad for them, especially Randy - they were sweet kids.
shareIt was sad that they left. Even sadder that they didn't keep in touch. You'd think they would at some point.
The four kids were like 12-14 when all that happened. It's a part of your life you tend to remember only in your subconscious and want to forget when you're older. Kids are much more adaptable and flexible and other kids come and go in their life. They were tweens! In other words too self-centered and don't care enough to try to keep up
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