Yes, the ending was very sad. I guess the "message" of the movie is that you should go out and do what you need to do to be happy, rather than pretend that something else will make you happy. I suppose that Hollywood glommed on to this film as a counter to the political support that anti-gay marriage initiatives have received in the states where they've been on the ballot.
As a live and let live person, I can see their point. The problem comes with deciding what crosses the line between asking to be left alone, and shoving things down someone else's throat. I know a lot of my fellow Freepers think this film crosses that line, but I didn't see it that way.
Me neither. Did anyone hold a gun to your head and make you see it? I think not!
I don't have any plans to see it, nor do I much care if anyone else sees it. Not any of my business, really.
Thanks for the review. From what my friend said it sounded like a chick flick, not my favorite genre.
All joking aside, I am also a “live and let live” sort of person, distancing my self somewhat from some, but not all Freepers. I subscribe to "To thine own self, be true". As long as that causes no harm to myself or others.
I haven’t seen the movie yet but haven’t counted out seeing it either. It sounds to me that it’s a technically and visually well-made film with a compelling story line despite the “squirm factor”.
One does not have to like or agree with the choices a character in a novel or movie makes for that story to be thought provoking or a well told story.
In the last year, I re-read Tolstoy’s classic, Anna Karenina. I did not find much sympathy for the title character; she was self indulgent, self-obsessed and somewhat delusional. But her character was the novel’s focal point and moved the story line and other characters forward and served as a contrast for a life well lived.
The character of Levin is really the novel’s moral voice, often overlooked, as Anna’s tragic fate is so much more compelling to most readers.