it showed at the beginning her narrative where she talked about her dad getting an itch which later turned to cancer but the movie never went in to it.
which is weird because every thing else she discussed at the beginning the movie showed in detail.
why is this?
The key word is later. As in much later. At that time it is just an itch. The implication is that he will develop cancer well after the story ends.
That was my take.
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well, her narrative said "This was the year everything happened."
so, i don't know. rather misleading. i wonder if there's deleted scene or something.
Yeah, that's true, but she does say that her dad started scratching an itch that turned into, or became, cancer. The itch started, so I took that to mean the beginning of the cancer cells, nothing that could be diagnosed for some time.
That's what I heard, anyway.
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It's not misleading. She explicitly states that this is the year her father gets an inch that he will later on find out is cancer. At no point should anyone who was paying attention have expected her dad to get cancer in the film. It was clear that this was something that would be happening well after anything else in the movie.
sharein the end she says that things can be perfect even if they don't last, that ties up the whole movie pretty fast. We don't need to see the dad getting cancer, we know it's going to happen and her perfect moment will be ruined, but for now we have a "happy ending" in a world where there are no endings. Sometimes a good cinematographers leaves some things unfinished, opened, that's to make you feel think about the characters after the credits. They live on
shareIt says he noticed the itch that year and much later it became cancer. I thought it was pretty clear but I guess I could be wrong.
shareYes. One thing that the mentioning of the cancer and the father's death makes clear is that the narration is occurring when she's considerably older than when we see her in the movie, so it's a clever device actually.
shareYep, that is exactly right. It was only the itch that year but it eventually became cancer.
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Yeah, at the beginning of the movie it said that the cancer "took his hair and then his life" implying that he died. Then it said that her mom died and her dad was still alive. I'm so confused.
shareI don't really see the point in her mentioning something that has no relevance to the story whatsoever.
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He had a broken heart, I think
Didn't Caroline's mom die from breast cancer?
From what I remember I was impressed by this when the father was telling Thursten's mother of his wife's death because I was expecting him to have cancer also but I think it was just a double entendre for him to be a grief-stricken widow who's love just past away from cancer in the breast