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Not bad, but I thought the men needed a bit more development.

posted 9 years ago by The-Musicscope
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So when she went back to Ireland, Jim was presented as the home-town guy she might leave Tony for, but the movie showed so little about him that made us really wonder if she should (or shouldn't for that matter) make a decision that big just for him. Basically, it was hard to care for such an undeveloped character.

Kinda the same with Tony. Eilis and his relationship was (I thought) billed as the central part of the plot, but he didn't get a whole lot of time to grow on me as a viewer I thought either. As a result, I didn't care that she left him behind and eventually came back quite as much as I'd have liked.

I kinda wish the movie just took like an extra half-hour to develop the Tony and Jim characters a little more.

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[–] TxMike 9 years ago

I look at it from a different perspective. To me the story is representative of the struggle in the 1950s for capable young women moving from Ireland to the USA. So for me the men in her life were almost incidental, in that the one she married and then the one back home she became attracted to gave her reason to think more deeply if she had made the right choices. It is her story.

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[–] The-Musicscope 8 years ago

Bump. Nobody but that Texan know-it-all? 

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[–] Dagwoodie 8 years ago

Who evidently knows more than you?

[–] The-Musicscope 8 years ago

What's this got to do with knowing more, it is just an opinion having watched the movie?  And it's not that I'm against TxMike having a different one but I've encountered him on other boards and telling people basically 'my opinion is better than yours' seems to be his thing .

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[–] purple_lemon 8 years ago

I agree about Jim, he was a decent guy but apart from that there wasn't much else about him. I suppose Tony was fairly well developed as a character but my biggest gripe about him (apart from him being so small) was why was he the only man that was interested in Eilish?

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