I'm hoping someone can clear this up for me, maybe it just bothered me more than most people, but I thought that the death of their son Walt was highly underplayed. I saw hardly any mourning for the boy and it also wasn't very clear that he had even died, yes they freeze framed on him in the wreck but...I just thought Garp seemed far more upset about the fact that his wife was cheating on him than the death of his son.
shareI disagree. I think this falls directly in line with the story line. did you not see the film? The characaters are always at deaths door and jenny Fields is a lightning rod for this bad luck, Garp fights about this fact throught the whole film with his mother and others, this is why it has such meaning.
The death of Walt had to happen, there had to be a wall hit. (wall =walt..cool)
I really don't think you understood the question.
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You're funny, Chainsofreason. You think you're being clever by responding, but you're actually being a huge, hilarious dummy, because you did not understand the clearly-phrased question that everyone else got. Not only that, but your grammar and spelling are awful, as is your basic thought process represented in this post.
Do try and keep up with what's actually going on next time, ya silly dum-dum. ;)
Actually in the book their mourning is also very overlooked. This is one complaint I have about the book also. There is no mention of a funeral or anything, just a time lapse then them saying that they miss him. much of garps grieving and process about the entire car wreck incident however are put into the creation of the book he writes inspired to lash back at the elle jamesions, which makes everything make more sense in terms of how the death seems not to be properly dealt with
shareWell, in the book, Walt's death is not openly mentioned for quite a while after it happens. You have to gradually sort of figure it out by his absence. It is a deliberate literary device. A way of saying his death was too painful to mention.
The movie tries to duplicate tjat but it isn't quite as successful. (FWIW, I found it difficult to take Robin Williams seriously in the role. Not really his fault. He was miscast in an otherwise brilliantly cast movie)
Agreed bsharporflat!
sharehis death was too painful to mention.
Ten (10) minutes, ladies and gentlemen, and we get to the obligatory Germany-is-bad propaganda-bs added to the books and movies by the publishers and producers that worship $atan.
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