Well Sutter is a prime example of how to be a self destructive A-hole. And for people who keep asking about ending. He decided to do the right thing and chase her at the end but He is too late. He caused her great pain and she finally moved on. You can see that from her reaction when he showed up. There that's your ending.
PS: D-bag almost killed her and she still loved him. She was a keeper but too late mate.
It was open-ended ending, not set in stone as you stated.
All we see is her reaction and just because you interpreted it one way doesn't mean it's how it was intended.
Unless you go by the book's ending, in which he doesn't go to Philadelphia at all.
Oh and use a spoilers tag or put 'spoilers' in your subject line if you insist on saying the movie's ending.
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I don't think he was too late. But I think it was really, really close.
shareFail to make Sutter look like a monster. he was a genuinely good person with a good heart, he just had a drinking problem and was unaware of the pain he was causing. One more thing, it was an accident when she almost died. If you really think Sutter was the kind of guy who would deliberately push someone out to get hit you need to re-watch the movie again.
share...he was a genuinely good person with a good heart, he just had a drinking problem and was unaware of the pain he was causing.
I don't think that a good person would try to seduce his friend's girl, more than once. Then manage to turn things around with a Jedi mind trick (or whatever) when said friend confronted him at his job. And, if he had not been drinking, the accident would not have happened. He would not have literally pushed her in front of a car. A good person does not drink and drive. Watch Judge Judy, she knows this too
Aimee's friend was not fooled by his charisma; The scene in the cafeteria when he tried to introduce himself and she said, "I know who you are." with a dirty look on her face, said it all.
He had a drinking problem, overcame it and by the end was reformed. He was a complicated teen without a father. You obviously didn't listen to Sutter's narration at the end of the film, it was clear he had realized the error of his ways and was ready to change. If you think he's a bad person then you are probably a child who judges people just by what they do and have a lack of understanding for people's issues. Aimee's friend was an annoying little bitch, glad she wasn't in the movie that much, her acting sucked the high wind. And Judge Judy? I don't watch overrated stick-in-the-ass woman. Sutter wasn't perfect, none of us are, and he tried to tell Aimee that he wasn't good for her. The look on Aimee's friend's face was more jealousy than what you think you saw.
shareIf you think he's a bad person then you are probably a child who judges people just by what they do and have a lack of understanding for people's issues.
Aimee's friend was an annoying little bitch, glad she wasn't in the movie that much, her acting sucked the high wind. And Judge Judy? I don't watch overrated stick-in-the-ass woman.
And you don't judge people???
What an idiot you are.
She was a complete bitch to him as we saw, Sutter was a good man with an issue but he was nice to people.
shareIf she came off that way, it was only because she was being protective of her friend. If she didn't know what Sutter was like, if he didn't have some kind of reputation, then she wouldn't have treated him so coldly. Even Sutter's own best friend told him to not get involved with Aimee - for Aimee's sake.
shareYeah I guess so, I still like Sutter though because the fact remains he is a nice guy with a good heart who is complicated like we all are.
shareWasn't really a snap judgement about Judge Judy I made, I've seen enough of her to know what I said is true.
shareIt's open to interpretation as some may say, but I think you are correct; She wasn't very excited to see him, her expression was more like "Hmm..."
shareI think you and the other poster are deluded, she was happy, blind?
shareOnly in the movies (yes I know this is a movie) can you spend the better part of a year / semester / summer being a complete jackass, and then spend one minute in a crying pity party for yourself and then hand wave away all the pain you've caused in a millisecond of clarity.
-You're drunk virtually constantly
-You do your level best to turn the girl into a drunk as well
-You dated an innocent, naïve, somewhat socially challenged girl who you didn't really care about
-You were her first (which is somewhat antiquated I know, but every girl I know without question knows and remembers who "her first" was).
-You then continuously tried to hook up with your ex- even in front of naïve girl
-Your carelessness almost got naïve girl killed
-You ignored her, and let her go to a rough city all on her own without so much as a text / call / conversation
And yet he's really a great guy, he's just misunderstood! In real life we have a name for this guy. He's a jerk. An immature jerk perhaps, but a jerk. In real life you'd tell this tool to go F- himself. Only in Hollywood do we make him a really good guy!