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I would like to jump in here to say that in my opinion, she knew she would start to resent him and didn't want to ruin the memories that they had. She would resent him for being the reason that she left her children and even though she made the mistake of letting herself fall in love in the first place, at least she tried to correct it.
The children grew up in a home that had a mother and a father so they got into the whole soulmate thing but wonder what they would have been saying and thinking if they had been one of us that grew up alone because the parents split? One ignores you to be with the "soulmate" and the other has to work constantly to feed you.
I think she did the right thing after she came to her senses and it was sad but I think it would have been much sadder if she had left her children, even though they didn't seem to think about that part of it.
The soulmate thing is great but not if you have children, that's to sad.
I would like to jump in here to say that in my opinion, she knew she would start to resent him and didn't want to ruin the memories that they had. She would resent him for being the reason that she left her children and even though she made the mistake of letting herself fall in love in the first place, at least she tried to correct it.
The children grew up in a home that had a mother and a father so they got into the whole soulmate thing but wonder what they would have been saying and thinking if they had been one of us that grew up alone because the parents split? One ignores you to be with the "soulmate" and the other has to work constantly to feed you.
I think she did the right thing after she came to her senses and it was sad but I think it would have been much sadder if she had left her children, even though they didn't seem to think about that part of it.
The soulmate thing is great but not if you have children, that's to sad.
I agree. When she was sitting in the truck, reaching for the handle, I was saying, don't do it! Don't get out of the truck!
I agree. When she was sitting in the truck, reaching for the handle, I was saying, don't do it! Don't get out of the truck!
I wanted her to go.
I like the movie because it's real. There is no fairy tale ending, no story book romance - life doesn't always turn out the way you want it to - but you push on nonetheless.
He-he, I think most single women want her to go and most married women want her to stay. At least that's how it ought to be based on our discussions on handling children, even if they're teens almost out of the house...
I, for some reason, seem to have a pretty "single" mind even when I'm married... Could be due to the lack of kids.
He-he, I think most single women want her to go and most married women want her to stay. At least that's how it ought to be based on our discussions on handling children, even if they're teens almost out of the house...
I, for some reason, seem to have a pretty "single" mind even when I'm married... Could be due to the lack of kids.
I don't know. Most of the married females I know said she should go too. Maybe that says something about them wishing they could bail out of their marriages for true love too.
Ok, despite Clint Eastwood being in it, this is the ultimate chick flick. I actually kind of like the movie despite being a guy but there's a couple of things that really bother me.
First, she cheats on her kindly husband but then blasts Clint, who is single, because he is getting ready to leave town. He has to because it's his job. Why is the cheater so angry? It's not like he seduced her. She entered willingly into her adultery but she blows up at him because he's apparently not willing to throw his life away to pursue a married woman.
Second, at the end, the brother and sister talk to their respective partners. The brother sees his bitchy wife at their motel and she's angry because he was away for so long at his dead mother's house. He immediately starts apologizing profusely and starts playing up to her, practically wallowing at her feet.
Meanwhile, the bitchy sister calls her partner on the phone and icily informs him she's not ready to come home yet. Apparently, she's mad at her partner because her mother was unfulfilled and was "forced" to cheat or something. So now all men are to blame for adulterous females! That's the take I got from this.
Like I said, I liked the movie. It had good performances but this has always bugged me. Men, take a lesson. If you're a good decent husband, it's your fault if your wife cheats on you.
She was incredibly caring and unselfish to NOT go with Clint. The woman was a tortured soul with no life of her own. She gave it all up for her ungrateful family. You can't really blame the teenage kids, but that husband deserves some blame. At the end when he was dying he admitted he knew how much she gave up for her them. He knew all along, but did he ever do anything about it? Did he ever offer her an out or anything to make her life any less inert? No, he just let her suffer unfulfilled. What a great guy. What a ridiculously mismatched couple, with the man getting what he wanted and her just going along. That whole family was lucky she didn't bail with Clint, much less the adult kids be so POd that she had, what, four days of some kind of connection and fulfillment in her adult life.
The woman in the story cheated because this man reminded her of what it was like to be wanted, what it was like to be alive again. To be more than just a housewife living in a rural midwestern town, practically anonymous, with little or no stimulation, culture, or appreciation. It wasn't as much about the sex as it was about this man breathing life back into her.
!00% agree with this analysis of the movie.
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