I noticed there was an undercurrent theme dealing with being fat in this film. There were fat comments. The kids were heavy. The woman eating donuts was noticeably overweight and comments made. The woman in the diner was quite obese. The heaping bowls of macaroni and cheese that the kids were supposed to eat. I don't see how it all fits in unless it was a sin thing like adultery and murder.
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There's supposed to be something there but it's pretty whitewashed whatever it's supposed to be. Maybe a commentary on greed, with the forclosures being part of the plot and all. And remember when the cops are leaving at the end the older one says, "You hungry? Lets go get fat." Odd phrasing.
And did either of the children have a single line?
There was definitely a "fat" theme.
Just dont know how they meant it, literal or physical, or both. I think both.
I also noticed how scathingly critical the wife was of the cop because she was a "fat a**" she didn't even appear to be fat, but there was a hidden meaning to the perception of fatness as shameful. This movie was definitely pointing to a "fat" theme both literal and figurative. Wonder if anyone else has figured out the purpose of putting a "fat" theme in a movie about murder, being a coward, and bad luck?
Perhaps there's something to the greed angle...but what does that have to do with murder? Is the movie implying that those that are fat are dead inside already?
...and what was John doing when Richie knocked on the front door at the beginning of the movie? Huffing pool fumes? Contemplating suicide? I was a little confused and it bugged me for the rest of the movie.
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Yes sir. Add the wife scolding the cop woman for being fat, even when she wasnt. Pretty weird she called her fat when her kids were fatter.
And the last exchange between the cops
-You hungry?
-Yeah.
-Let's go get fat.
It's been awhile since you posted your question. I just saw this movie tonight on Netflix and noticed this recurring theme as well. I think it was a commentary on the "fat cat" of conspicuous consumption. Here is this husband and father working in a sales position (presumably commission only) and having a pool put in and, instead of his wife being grateful for his contributions she betrays him by having an affair with the pool guy, has little to no sympathy for his financial stress and seems to think donning an apron and making heaping mounds of food is being a "good wife" (as she implied to the female officer).
Beyond that, I always heard from my parents and grandparents that it is a sin to waste food because so many people in the world are starving. So, to have the plates piled high with more food than a person can reasonably be expected to eat in one sitting seems like a play on the idea of "living high on the hog" (or, again, conspicuous consumption). It's saying "We have so much that we can throw a good percentage of it away).
Unfortunately, our society is very much "looks" conscious and overweight females are often shamed even as early as Kindergarten and sometimes even before that. In this sense, I got the impression the overweight women in the movie represented the "anger" and "animosity" we, as a society, lob at people that don't fit our very narrow standard of "beauty."
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