That poor husband


I hate how she acts like she loves him so very much, then downright rides the other guy's rod.


Beauty, like art, cinema and music, is subjective. It is not objective.

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Yep, at least I'm not the only one who noticed that and was irked by it, but the fact there's just you and me speaks volume still. I guess it goes to show that infidelity is so commonplace nowadays that nobody bats an eye to it.

Endure and Survive

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Not that it matters but I thought he was her boyfriend. You never see a ring on her finger even when she's with him. Also I did not get the impression she was head over heels at all. There was the one scene when she saw him after being away and wouldn't let go of him, but so many people will act like that. You can miss someone and not be in love with them. I did not get the impression she really cared about him.

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I think "Sarah" sleeping with the "Enemy" was an effort to show the double edged game she was playing as an infiltrayion expert. William (the rich guy pretending to be squatting on his own land) was trying to convert HER and make her feel safe so he could force her to be part of his final Jam out of loyalty and/or "love" in addition to shock at the things she'd seen with them at earlier "Jams". Intitially, Jane/Sarah was trying to get close to HIM so she could ID all the members of the collective. Ultimately, she failed both as a security asset AND as an activist. It seems naive to think that all she had to do was meet all her other operative, have a good "talking to" with them. and THAT would result in most of them abandoning their years of training, their profession itself and to become fugitives like she did. She might have convinced a few to get out of the private security game, but it is stated early on that most of them were recruited from the FBI and Law Enforcement, so how sucessful could she be at "deprogramming" them?

No, I think the sleeping with her "Target" William, after Izzy died was a typical Movie-Making way to punctuate the story and send us the ole "need to go on living" after a death scene message. Also, Izzy was dead long before she pulled the bullet out, so even if Sarah had saved her, Izzy would have died of sepsis or shock out there in the ruined millionaire's house. In real life, people don't usually stop to hump like bunnies after having faced with a close scrape with death, but in here in the film Industry, it's standard shorthand AND an excuse to toss in some sex.

Still, I liked aspects of the film. I do wish Brit Marling would lose her nasal Valley Girl accent since she's a decent actress.

I also want to know those fictional places & stores that dump out such beautiful apples each week! In my town (Los Angeles), they are all donated to Food banks and certainly not allowed to rot. Most of the bruised or imperfect fruits wind up as juice, jam or puree anyway. Back East I know some markets that aren't as progressive, but here in LA, we have a good network with the local grocers. I say this as a Food Bank Volunteer who is grateful to the grocers who bring us their produce. Most families wait in line for 4 or more hours for two bags of groceries and that's all they get for the month.

So many weird things in the film but it gives you a lot to think about.

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To someone like her it's I will not respect any man.

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This. My impression was that they were great friends more than anything. They didn't exchange I love yous when she departed for "Dubai." Their relationship seemed to be more of a fond familiarity than love affair. Even as they're splitting up, he says she can still come to his parents' house for the holidays -- that she's family.

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Her job and the mission got in the way. She did love him as demonstrated by her crying after he broke it off. She sacrificed and let him go. She was trapped with the other guy and settled on if not her boyfriend then i may as well complete what what made her drive him away. The other guy did not make the same impression on her when leaving as her boyfriend did.

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But...it's Alexander Skarsgard. Surely you get a hall pass for that. Just once.

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it made me really dislike the film. All the characters were really unlikeable.

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Her job and the mission got in the way. She did love him as demonstrated by her crying after he broke it off. She sacrificed and let him go. She was trapped with the other guy and settled on if not her boyfriend then i may as well complete what what made her drive him away. The other guy did not make the same impression on her when leaving as her boyfriend did.

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Didn't really care too much about her "cheating" on her boyfriend, they really didn't seem that serious. But I did find that scene to just be unbelievable. I mean, would a sharp agent like her have unprotected sex with some random anarchist extremist in the woods? She seemed way too cautious for that. Not that we can be sure they didn't use a condom, but I just doubt any of them would be walking around in the woods with one "just in case" :)

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but it was Alexander Skarsgard!

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LOL, I love that in a film where a corporation's dumping of pollutants into water causes a four year old to die of cancer, and at least three people to suffer brain damage from medicine that's dangerously regulated; your sympathy is for someone who got cheated on.

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Haha..Exactly..I thought the same..
Funny when this is inserted into a film that is really about something more than somehow for some people it becomes only about that.
Her character was compromised in many ways as she pretended to be a completely different person with a completely different life. It's easy to see how that could happen and it seems understandable that she would be conflicted and torn.

Not that infidelity is a great things to aspire to but it's not the worst thing in the world either. Not when you're dealing with terminal children and brain damage and consequences that might affect thousands of people.

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