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Tommy/Kathy Woods Scene Question Spoilers

posted 13 years ago by gemin62
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I'm sorry if it has already been discussed, I tried to find it in the posts but didn't see anything about it. Okay, when Tommy and Kathy are in the woods, and Tommy is basically declaring that he loves her, and they are talking about the gallery and it being evidence of their true souls and they would have nothing to evaluate him by, because she submitted so much over the years and he nothing. Did he use his tokens every year to buy her 'bumper crops' and then she then submitted them to the gallery? Because the first time we see her as an adult, she is sitting on her bed looking at a bunch of toys/'junk'. Basically can someone explain what he meant when he said that the gallery would have nothing to judge him by, because I took it as his declaration of love for her, because he would use his tokens every bumper crop to get her things.

I know the gallery took things like art, poetry and the like, but I wasn't sure why him saying that he gave nothing to the gallery and she a lot over the years would mean that he loved her.

Long winded, I'm sorry. It was a weird thing to explain/ask. Any thoughts are appreciated.

[–] IGotGrapes09 13 years ago

naw u missed what that scene meant. she asked him if he was going to apply for a deferral with ruth and he said "no it wouldn't work" - obviously because he was not truly in love with ruth, he was in love with kathy, but since he didn't have the balls to say that he gave her another reason. he said that it was because they wouldn't have any art from him in the gallery which was true but that was tommy's chance to declare his love for kathy and he just couldn't do it so that's why kathy starts to shed a tear.

[–] gemin62 13 years ago

Oh okay, thanks. I did watch it again, and see this. I knew he said that it wouldn't be true with Ruth but then I thought maybe the continuation of his dialogue meant to further back up him loving Kathy instead. But what you said makes sense. Thanks again.

[–] nnenok 12 years ago

I understood it the same way you did and I don't agree with IGotGrapes09. It was a declaration of love to Kathy.
Kathy asks whether he will apply for deferral with Ruth. He says no, it wouldn't work - and then the long silence where he's obviously struggling about what to say. And then he says "you submitted a lot of stuff, but they wouldn't have anything from me". Why would he say the first part of the sentence if he wouldn't want to say that he wants a deferral with Kathy? He knows that she was in love with him since forever so her art would be full of love sentiments - but since this wouldn't be mutual (because they don't have art by Tommy), this wouldn't work.

[–] cinemagirl16 11 years ago

Agreed nnenok. By Tommy saying "You submitted a lot of stuff over the years and they don't have anything from me"... he's more or less declaring his love for Kathy- pairing them up as being truly in love and that's the reason she starts to cry.