At the end of the movie they ask Evangeline if she loves Mr. Brown, and she says Yes and they ask HIM if he loves her and he also says yes. Am I the only one who thought that was a BIT wrong, I mean the mother JUST died, baby Agatha is really a baby, how can you fall in love with someone in such a short period of time? specially after your wife's death.. just a bit wrong.
sharei think its wrong too but this is a moive and its unreal for kids sake. he has to marry for money so i guess he'll grow to love her.
black brit saying *beep*
Even i thought the exact same thing while watching it.But maybe the mother died right after giving birth to Agatha.That would still give an "appropriate" interval of time.
shareThe mother died very soon after giving birth to Aggie. Mr. Brown talks about how the mother was very sick after that, and we can presume this is the reason she died.
Aggie is a baby, but not a newborn. There's been an acceptable period of time past.
Somewhere in the movie it says she's been dead about a year. I was dating within 6 months after my husband died. Falling in love is the easy part. Putting up with them afterwards is the hard one.
shareYes it can happen really fast. Within a few months of my father's death, my mother was in love with another man, one she had rarely seen prior. They were married 6 years ago, one year after my father's untimely death and are still very much in love.
You must do the thing you think you cannot do. Eleanor Roosevelt
It isn't "unreal" it happens all the time. I think the main reason they do get married right after is so that they have a person with them to help grieve because people usaully marry someone that was close to them while their spouse was dying. Or even like pianocellolove said, love just happens which happened in this movie.
shareHe needed someone to help take care of the children, I have heard of people marrying for less noble reasons. And for gods sake, if he was going to marry Mrs. Quickly for that reason, and Evangeline appeared and wanted the job, wouldn't he have said "I LOVE YOU" out of sheer joy?
shareHe had been noticing her, all along the movie. He could see she cared for the kids, but, the class distinction was ever present. When he was asked, he had to admit it. She, of course, loved him all along.
share"The mother died very soon after giving birth to Aggie. Mr. Brown talks about how the mother was very sick after that, and we can presume this is the reason she died.
Aggie is a baby, but not a newborn. There's been an acceptable period of time past."
if Aggie had been a newborn she wouldnt have said beehive, and Brown wouldve married Selma instead of Evangeline!
no happy ending!
said in one word:
indeed!
I said she wasn't a newborn...
sharetrue, plus she can say bum and poo and listens to her sister who tells her to stop crying when her rattle is taken from her and broken
"sir, sir, i gotta check and see if you've soiled yourself, I'll get to you in a moment, sir!"
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How do you know he didn't have feelings for her? And of course he didn't love her, that would happen after they've been dating, or in their case are married, he just never admitted to fancying her till he was confronted at the almost-wedding.
"sir, sir, i gotta check and see if you've soiled yourself, I'll get to you in a moment, sir!"
She was a scullery maid. He never treated her as such. He even gave her a decent looking room in tbe house. Most scullery maids wouldn't get a room that nice. He liked her, but because of class, he couldn't admit it.
shareAggie is a baby, but not a newborn. There's been an acceptable period of time past.
Aggie in reality is at BEST 10 months old-she can't even walk. Yes, in movie they want us to believe she's about a year to 18 months. So, according to the story, if Mum died giving birth to Aggie/Aggy there has been an acceptable amount of time that has passed to take a new wife.
What, just for once in your life can't you be serious?
After the death of a wife, sometimes the reality is that men can't live alone. I've seen it in 2 close male relatives where a couple of months after their (beloved) wives deaths, they each were involved in a relationship. So it is in real life and in reel life.
shareWhats a right period of time to wait to fall in love? Didn't realise it had such strict rules...
shareI enjoyed the movie, and I loved the fantastical colors (the wedding scene was my fave with all the bright colors, the shocking pink cake and the shepherd/shepherdess clothes the children were wearing). However, I too felt that the love between Evangeline and the father was a bit odd, not because the time elapsed between the mother's death and present time in the movie, but because at one point the father says "Nonsense, she has always looked liked that" when they see Evangeline return with the aunt. Which makes me wonder, was she working as a scullery maid while the wife was alive, and if so, did the father already feel an attraction for her? Or maybe I just missed the part if she was hired after the mother's death...
shareThere really aren't strict rules for falling in love. If it happens it happens. Just because it happens different for you than someone else doesn't mean that the way it happened to you is wrong. Same goes for how quickly it happens.
shareI don't think there was anything wrong with it.
There are no rules as far as love is concerned.
when I was 24 my husband was killed. 5 months later I was engaged. I got married a year after my engagement.
The man I married had been my best friend since I was 16. I had never in my life thought of him in a romantic way.
After my husband died he helped me emotionally and financially as a good friend would. He then proposed to me one night and I turned him down. But upon reflection and his persistance I accepted.
I realized that I couldn't do better than my best friend. Someone who knew me completely, everything about me. No secrets, no surprises. Someone I trusted.
Some people found it strange but most of the people I knew were just glad that I was happy.
October will be our 4th anniversary and we are still very happy. He adopted my daughters, we have a son and all is well.
Should I Have passed up on happiness? on my girls having a father again? because someone thought I should have waited til THEy thought it was right for me to remarry?
I don't think so.
It was a completely disgusting match for that and other reasons. He was way too old for her, she was way too uneducated for him and his children, and putting the focus on an unrealistic adult romance took away the fun of the movie and made it far too earnest. He should have at least asked the Emma Thompson character to marry him. They are contemporaries.
shareOkay, did you watche the movie? Those were some of the reasons why Evangeline didn't tell him how she felt. But you can't help who you love.
"He was way too old for her." ? Oh yeah. He asking Nanny McPhee to marry him would make perfect sense. For one thing, she doesn't get emotionally attached to her charges. hence the whole, "When-you-need-me-but-do-not-want-me-I-will-stay-and-when-you-want-me-but-no-longer-need-me-I-shall-go thing" thing. And another thing, she's old enough to be his grandmother.
She will always be alone. It makes her more mysterious and adds to unique character.
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