| first watched this movie I liked it but didn’t | | | | stay on the path to what he thinks life should be like, |
| like the ending. It felt like oh god, not another | | | | it drives him to fight the more carefree side of |
| lazy writer who wants us to finish telling their story | | | | himself. I mean the end is like I know that nice |
| to ourselves. But a day later the movie kept | | | | part of me is somewhere around here threatening to |
| playing in my mind. I just couldn’t let it go. | | | | ruin all that I’ve worked hard to get at his |
| Eventually it began to all make sense. I | | | | expense. |
| couldn’t believe the depth of the messages | | | | The zero on the scale is pretty straight forward. |
| that began to reveal themselves the more I | | | | Who they used to be when he was a different |
| processed the movie. | | | | person, doesn’t exist anymore
If you |
| One thing that threw me off was the feeling that | | | | want to get more silly you could say, when he fixed |
| the story was about just the woman and possibly | | | | the scale, he weighed 60 she weighed 40 = 100 |
| the young man; until I realized the story was actually | | | | which could be taken as together they are 100% or |
| about the woman and her husband. I believe the | | | | that their relationship is uneven with him being more |
| young man was a younger, nicer version of her | | | | important than her. |
| husband and represents how he was when they | | | | One could also see that this young guy was just in |
| were dating or first married. One thing that first lead | | | | the wife’s mind also because he seemed to |
| me to this was the golf. What are the chances of | | | | do some dumb things that if you are a seasoned |
| this drifter coming into her home who happens to | | | | drifter, you probably wouldn’t do. Like, just |
| also be good at golf? Perhaps she was trying to stop | | | | hanging up the phone on the dead guy’s son |
| him from playing golf because it may have been the | | | | AND still staying in the apartment like nothing is |
| first thing that caused her husband to become the | | | | wrong. I mean, I’d like to think that a |
| man that he is (for instance, golf symbolizing business | | | | seasoned drifter would know he should bounce. Or |
| and affluence that her husband obviously strives for, | | | | always leaving his bike right outside the houses they |
| (the ball hitting the woman in the car was to show | | | | break into. I mean really? But if this man is created |
| how his goals in life have hurt people and have been | | | | by this woman’s mind, I can see why these |
| destructive) Then there are other things; like with | | | | mistakes were made because its really her who is |
| the police when they checked the young | | | | making them. |
| man’s background they said he had a degree, | | | | I also think that whole prison scene again was back |
| etc. (I also noticed that while this guy was a drifter | | | | to being directly about the husband. He was trying |
| he drove a nice BMW bike, his character was almost | | | | very hard to cage that part of himself. The nice part |
| to say there was a balance between the finer things | | | | of himself or who he used to be. So the nice part of |
| and being humble (i.e. hand washing clothes when you | | | | himself, learned to be there stealth-fully(and in the |
| don’t have to, yet driving a nice vehicle). And | | | | end, the wife learned to relate to him as if he were |
| once this guy was locked up, the woman’s | | | | still that nice guy he used to be. i.e. see past the |
| husband tried to be much nicer but this is what lead | | | | abusive person who he’d become like so |
| me to think that the story is also just as much about | | | | many abused women do). The cops were a part of |
| him. I thought the husband trying to be nice once the | | | | the husband’s reality. They kept his nicer self |
| drifter was locked up represented the Dr. | | | | in check. |
| Jekyll and Mr. Hyde personalities of a lot of abuse | | | | I also think the couple who’s home they went |
| spouses/significant others. It reminded me of when | | | | back to and just let her sleep, represents what they |
| abusive persons beat their loved ones then try to | | | | could have been. Those two were shown watering |
| act nice or remorseful afterwards; claiming they will | | | | or tending to plants whenever they were in a shot, |
| never do it again. In this case, the husband was | | | | representing two nurturing people; which would be |
| trying to reassure his wife he was a changed man. | | | | required for a good relationship. |
| I asked myself, why would the husband be able to | | | | In the end, the wife decided to stay with the |
| interact with the young man? His interaction with this | | | | husband because as the scene would show, she was |
| young guy is a war between the mean person he is | | | | determined to hold on to the person he used to be |
| and perhaps the good person he used to be when | | | | (i.e. the young caring man). By the end of the movie, |
| he was younger. His current self is so determine to | | | | the husband had not changed. |