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Why dump Frankie?

posted 13 years ago by LadyConsumer
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As far as the story goes, it was pretty good, throughout most of the film. While I can’t claim to really identify with Aura’s situation, she portrays it in such a way that I understood it. I felt her confusion and her frustration with a stage of life that doesn’t hand her any easy answers.

On the other hand, some of her decisions were just so bone-headed that she lost my sympathy. Especially her treatment of Frankie - the one person in her life who really cared about her and really could have helped to set her on the right path. Her decision to break ties with Frankie confused me, I’m not at all sure why she did it. She should have held onto that friendship for dear life!

When she dumped Frankie, the movie was spoiled for me. All of the rest of her decisions I could live with, but not this one.

You can read my full review here:
http://www.epinions.com/review/Tiny_Furniture_2010_epi/content_5743551 81188

Thanks!

[–] sirmalker 12 years ago

She was afraid to be seen with a queer. It's quite common. You get munched out in the hay, while staying with your aunt in Idaho, but once you get back to the big Apple, you don't want nothing to do with it. Sad really.

I'm better than you.

[–] khaene-hirschman 12 years ago

Aura is pathetic, narcissistic, insecure & lazy. That's why she broke up with Frankie - Typical of many 20 somethings, I'm the same. I don't think we are supposed to sympathize with Aura; her decision to move away from Frankie helps solidify that.

[–] claudja777 12 years ago

actually "dumping" frankie was what made this movie different form any other indies,where the protagonist has "all the right side" and the others just plain suck .in this case in that peculiar scene we see that also aura is not this victim of everything that she also makes people sufffer

[–] cookiela2001 11 years ago

The heroine is so flighty, it's entirely possible she'd change her mind and get an apartment with her college friend the next day.

But yes, that was an odd development.