Post by unanimous on Jan 25, 2009 16:28:03 GMT 3
A bummer, great performances and personal reminder why I don’t watch soaps. It’s a story of, by all appearances, perfect couple who are bored out of their minds with their perfect life – guy has a stable but seemed dead-end job (mediocre at best by excitement level), stay at home mom with two kids living in a decent house in the suburbs. Mom a former actress wannabe. The issue? They are so bored and miserable they eff around and bored mom entertains self by driving the husband’s nutty level to her par, and when she does not succeed, she grows crazier and crazier and more depressed. To save marriage and sanity, wife came up with the idea to move to Paris, give the husband a chance to bum around and find out what he really wants to do with his life coz marrying her, having kids, working that job is apparently not his choice, does not constitute a life(he didn’t ask for a timeout, and really had no idea what he wants to do: by his term he said he’s not even a writer or an artist to require much bumming time – he even seemed good at his boring job) but the idea of uprooting seemed to excite them both. She will be working as a secretary in paris, leo will be quitting his boring job, the kids a detail that can easily be sorted out. But then….SPOILER, kill me…….kate became pregnant and leo got a promotion to what seemed to be a more exciting job. And here the mom went officially nuts.
She wanted to abort the baby herself, all her self loathing projected to the max, she’s bored, she’s bored she’s bored she wants to go to parissssssssssssssssssssss!!!! She aborted the baby. She died. Leo moved to city with the kids and became even more of a devout dad. Great supporting cast.
Moral of the story? People are …well nuts. We’re born to be bothered. If we’re not bothered by one thing, we’re bothered by another – one equally as important as the other. Women and raging hormones are a scary thing. Boredom is evil. If your wife starts hinting at going to Paris, check if she’s pregnant…then check for any suspicious suction device around the house…..well the rest u’ve to find out in the movie. Not recommended to people moving to the suburbs.
You know what I find great about movies? It’s like a dress rehearsal, it’s like school..you can put yourself in their shoes and they give you example of what could happen if you go their way, think their way…and it makes you self-aware…very self aware. i.e. you go nuts over some detail with …whover. you stop and think….am I channeling my inner kate winslet? Or is this fatal attaraction Glen Close?....and that my friend is called applicaaaaaaatiene!!
seriously, i think what drove her nuts is that her dark eyebrows didnt match her blonde hair. it was so hardcore. movie should have been titled revolutionary brows.