In the deleted scenes the Shailene character also becomes an alcoholic and starts missing school, wrecking prom and failing class.
Then Brie Larson, her boyfriend and Miles' best friend intervene and tell Miles to leave Shailene alone and break up with her.
I'm kind of surprised how different the movie would have been had they gone in that direction.
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shareI agree. The deleted scenes also showed Aimee's mother and revealed that she had a stepfather named Randy!
But that deleted prom scene confused me, where would that scene have taken place? After their talk about moving together in the hallway?
Don't you hate it when horror movie posters are scarier than the movie itself?
Yeah, I agree! If they would have used some of those scenes the tone of the movie would have changed a lot. I was surprised by a few of them.
shareWorse, in his director's commentary Ponsoldt never explained why he chose to delete those particular scenes, even though he did say he had to make the film shorter. Some people here have said that some of the deleted scenes were in the book, so maybe Ponsoldt decided to film them out of a sense of being true to the author but in the end went in another direction.
I get the feeling Ponsoldt was trying to walk a fine line. He wanted a lot of raw emotional impact like Sutter meeting his father, but he didn't want to go too far and turn the film into a teenage "Days of Wine and Roses". Aimee and Sutter were still young enough that they could both step back from the precipice.
Yeah, those are interesting. I thought Aimee showed signs of being way too insecure and dependent on Sutter, that were kind of red flags, but they didn't really explore this and I couldn't tell what the filmmaker intended us to think about it.
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I feel like the deleted scenes had good potential, and they were definitely important to the plot, but I feel as though - now that I've finally seen them - they were best left cut out. The scene where Aimee reveals to Sutter her borderline rape experience with her step-father's son was well done, but I feel as though Sutter's reaction was too casual. Whether this was at the fault of Teller or the writing I'm not sure, but it was a somewhat let down.
And then another important scene where Aimee drinks too much at the prom, screams at Cassidy (seemingly out of nowhere?) and vomits on the ground and then is taken away by Sutter which had great potential, but it seems so random, awkward and out-of-place. Woodley's acting was kind of off there too IMO.
One thing I really enjoyed about this movie was how quiet and understated everything was; it made the film seem all the more real. Like we're mostly able to notice key things like Sutter's drinking problem and how he ends up dragging Aimee into this, as well as other things like his reluctance to fully grow up, commit, and move to Philly with Aimee etc. Although the deleted scenes would've provided some good character development, I feel like it would've taken away from the movie's unique charm.
She doesn't become an alcoholic. She drinks because of Sutter and she was definitely drunk when she yelled at Cassidy at the prom but she was nowhere close to being an alcoholic. If she had been an alcoholic, then she wouldn't have been happy when Sutter refused a drink after the graduation ceremony.
I don't think that scenes would have altered the tone of the movie. To me, they added depth to the characters' relationship.
I definitely thought Amy showed signs of alcohol abuse. There's even some foreshadowing from Brie Larson's character when she asks Sutter if he's turned Amy into an alcoholic yet, as if to suggest something similar had happened or almost happened to her.
What else was off/strange was that Amy didn't care about him driving drunk. He's literally chucking hard liquor while driving them back home from the dad's house yet that doesn't seem to be an issue. She's supposed to be very bright, "different" from "other girls." And yet, she's basically an idiot who doesn't value her own safety and doesn't seem to be aware of the concept of alcoholism. She's very perceptive in general, especially with the dad, so why doesn't any of that translate to Sutter?
I, too, think this isn't addressed on purpose and I like how we're supposed be asking these questions about Amy, her dependence on Sutter and her insecurity, but ultimately the character is just implausible to me.