I could not leave Rose, I would ask her to come with me and I would suggest to put her dad in a trunk so at the end we could all be together with Zoe. But if she wouldn't go for it I would stay with her. That scene when she said I will look at You until I can't see You any more and than she run behind the car that was heartbreaking for me.
I could not leave Rose, I would ask her to come with me and I would suggest to put her dad in a trunk so at the end we could all be together with Zoe.
I think we have to accept that it was her decision to stay with her father. We don't know the identities of the other bodies, but we could assume that they were family-related. Rose was mature enough to understand that her place was with her family at the end. She also understood that being with James and Zoe (someone she'd never met) would be awkward. Her priorities were the right ones for her. James accepted this.
But if she wouldn't go for it I would stay with her.
It wasn't about what you would do (sorry about that). But I understand how people might feel about such a situation.
That scene when she said I will look at You until I can't see You any more and than she run behind the car that was heartbreaking for me.
I agree. Their final contact, as he drove off, was heart-warming, and very touching. James's place was with Zoe at the end, as Rose's was with her father.
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But she was not with her family she was alone because they were all dead
Yes, she might have been the only living person at Aunt Janice's, but she was still with her family. As I said, it was her decision to be with them when the end came.
It's unknown whether she was aware of the other bodies, or who they might be, but she did keep her promise to meet up with her father (even if he wasn't, as it turned out, alive).
I think that the grave she (with James) made for her father shows how much she loved him, and that she wouldn't leave him.
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By the time he talked her into coming with him, packed up the corpse of her father, & drove to be with his gal, it would have been too late.
I'm not sure, corgi37.
It'd depend on how long it took James to convince Rose to come with him to the beach.
If she was persuaded relatively quickly, and they therefore didn't need to carry her father's body to the grave site, dig the grave, bury him and hold their ceremony, then they might well have got to the beach before the end came.
But she seemed to be very determined not to leave her (dead) father.
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That is the first thing I thought of that James would at least ask Rose if she would come with him if he brought her father. It was plain to see that Rose was just a child and still every insecure, she'd obviously be frightened to face the end all by her lonesome as she was at that crazy party ergo why James should not have left that child alone (he already screwed up by leaving the his pregnant girlfriend behind and that was the whole focus point of the story, no?).
I sort of lost respect for his character at that stage. Well, for that and leaving his mum behind... what kind of son would do that? That poor lady invested at least eighteen-years of her life and hard labor to bring him into the world. "Yeah, my mum is old and doing puzzles, so she'll be all fine and dandy to die on her own."
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yah it was sad that he left her alone, but you know...the clock is ticking. He didn't have time to try to convince her, and she was where she wanted to be. The house was comfortable looking (and mercifully body-free) so she could wait it out there. It wasn't going to be for long
Yes. In the perfect universe, he would have asked his mom to come along, packed Rose's dad in the trunk, and they all travel to meet Zoe. They get to Zoe's house, have enough time for a last supper, then the world ends with him and Zoe hugging on the beach while mom & Rose doing a puzzle back at the house.
Well... it ain't a perfect universe. I loved the ending just fine. But yeh... I though about the trunk too during the movie.