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Some questions / comments

posted 9 years ago by olliemankz
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I found it something of a conflict that she could give away her son's toys, which presumably would have involved going into his room, yet had trouble going after the swim trunks at the end, and being in the room.

I somehow missed what the cake was all about. Did she offend the dad and little boy when she ejected the man who had caused the accident? Did they think she was nuts? Why?

Is she going to remain the dad's girlfriend, or if she wasn't that already, does she have a prayer of being so? And does she care?

[–] stephanieburke 9 years ago

Toys: She said she found them in the garage.

Cake: It was the little boy's birthday (remember he told her it was his birthday in the car and asked her to get him a shark kite?) and Nina (the boy's mom that killed herself) and mentioned in group that her dream was to make her son a homemade birthday cake, but couldn't because of her chronic pain. I think it was also to try to make up for scaring the boy and the dad.

Girlfriend: I think they were more going for just being FRIENDS. (Get it, FRIENDS?) :) I don't think the dad was ready for a girlfriend, especially one with so many issues.

[–] olliemankz 9 years ago

Thanks very much, I appreciate that. I think I get the "friends" ... you mean, as in a reference to the show that made her a star? That was a pretty hot dad. I guess we'll probably be seeing more of him. Interesting to see William H. Macy in the role of the driver who rather understandably set her off as he had been responsible for the accident that had killed her son.

A comment that I had meant to add originally: as we began to draw back and see more and more of the house, I felt it was a bit on the shabby side. I know it was like 70's post-modern or something, but I just felt like the living room wallpaper or whatever looked surprisingly worn. I thought she was supposed to be pretty well-to-do. Maybe that was supposed to reflect her state of mind. Probably a lot of people in Cali live in places like that. I imagine the filmmakers found a house as a location and did not redo the interior much so they must have liked it the way it was.

[–] borninthewrongcentury 9 years ago

They were just meeting each others needs and filling a void. I don't think they were that intimate or involved. Maybe eventually who knows. It unfortunately doesn't delve that deep.

But really I felt like they just needed each other. Like missing puzzle pieces to the same puzzle.