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she knows her cycles SO well she celebrates "sushi night" but...

posted 10 years ago by iasimkhovich
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i don't think it's a spoiler to mention that a main device in the film is the term "sushi night" which is laboriously explained in a one of those "get to know the characters" scenes straight out of Hollywood Upstairs Film College, but...

*spoiler alert*

it's just a stupid gimme "stupid" when he explains that the first evening, as the film begins, he received an eviction notice and--ignoring that he suggests that he'll impregnate her THAT NIGHT as some bizarre happy promise even though... he JUST got an eviction notice and the audience was led to appreciate and adore(?) her with her little friend discussing her plans to procreate and it just feels disturbing sadly irresponsible--he didn't tell her because it was "sushi night"; i mostly focus on this because the solarmovie page had a comment making fun of a further line about "sushi night".

it's just... she seems responsible when discussing planned procreation with her friend, she steps in and answers FOR franco when the cop asks him what he does like she's the boss and knows it all, but... even though she's all that, AND knows her cycles, she DIDN'T know that they were about to be evicted or that they even needed to worry about it at that "time of the month" when it's been established that he's unemployed and they probably share their wealth openly.

[–] MargaritaS22 10 years ago

Welcome to reality and life...

[–] davidovar34 10 years ago

+1 to that.

''They are shaping me into something gaudy. Something lethal.''

[–] kevinb70 10 years ago

Doesn't take a rocket scientist to determine her peak ovulation, esp if she's talked to a doctor and has a thermometer.

Prudent financial planning is a completely different skill. Such as not overspending on the reno. Skills which would have also had them decide to put off getting pregnant - and the anxiety that goes with trying so hard.

We're broke and getting evicted - so let's have a baby!

[–] bh90212 10 years ago

Dr. isn't necessary. $.10 OPKs bought online will pinpoint it.

[–] IndyCelt 9 years ago

Doesn't take a rocket scientist to determine her peak ovulation

Right, a simple very cheap kit does that.

Prudent financial planning is a completely different skill.

Ain't that the truth. Not taught in schools yet, afaik.

She was a young kids' teacher. He was in the cyclical property services businesses. So safe to say stable decent income wasn't a high priority in their career choices.

[–] Prelude (1443) 7 years ago

Did it escape your attention that Franco's character seemed to make a habit of hiding truths from her, more than once in this movie?

He doesn't tell her about the eviction notice. There's another identical "don't tell her" thing another time in the movie -- I'm forgetting what it was now. But it stood out to me that this guy holds a LOT back from his own wife.

That tells me he probably was doing it a lot longer than what we get to see. This stood out to me so acutely that I hated him for it; I once almost married someone who would have been doing that to a serious level, had we continued to have a life together. Thank god we didn't.

Franco was seriously not into telling his own life-partner crucial things they ought to be sharing together. It doesn't surprise me at all that she was unaware they would have been approaching eviction status. He wasn't at all "open" with her about their finances.