Kate seemed to be kind of a snob in her wealthy single reality. She calls Jack Christmas eve and he's thinking she's probably having a fit of nostalgia. But in the end of film after Jack's glimpse, but in reality is the next day after the above mentioned call on Xmas eve, Jack follows up and goes to see her. She was short, impersonal, had absolutely no emotions about seeing him, all she seemed to have wanted him for was to give him a box of some old junk, and then the way she invited him to meet with her in Paris if he was ever there for "cafe' ole" seemed like she really didn't care that much if he ever would come meet with her or not. She seemed like she thought she was too good for him now, like she was on to bigger and better things. She was all happy and flighty about leaving for Paris and all she wanted from her old lover (with no lingering emotions) was to give him a box of odds and ends or whatever. She was so much more a snob in this reality than in the glimpse reality, and more hot and sexy with her makeup, clothes, hair, etc. Much more "I'm so much better than you".
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bayowolf
8 years ago
The purpose of her call was that she didn't want to schlepp the box of Jack's old stuff all the way to Paris.
"She was short, impersonal, had absolutely no emotions about seeing him" after he left her, told her that it's only going to be a year, and (then) apparently forgets to call her for 13 years. Who can blame her?
~~Bayowolf
There's a difference between being frank... and being dick.
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richspenc
8 years ago
Yeh, I see your point. The film just didn't make it clear if Jack had said absolutely nothing to Kate again for 13 years after the airport scene, or if other things after he took off for his year away happened between them to finalize a breakup. Cause when Jack leaves Kate at the airport, he never dumps her, he just says that they should just continue with the plans they already made and that no one thinks clearly at the airport. He also tells her as he's leaving "one year away will never split us up. A hundred years will never split us up". But Kate still breaks into tears and takes it as a breakup. Next scene; 13 years later and we see Jack's mega rich Manhatten Wall street lifestyle and him at work at his fancy swank office as a top Wall street executive.
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