Two Birds

He had had commitment wrenched from him from mark. Is he supposed to try to find commitment again the way that mark found it: Grow up, find a wife, settle down? Both characters ends seemed to have a downside, but at least kurt found the courage to initiate newness. I mean, imagine if Mark truly accepted Kurt's inclusivity, for lack of a better word. They could build such a strong bond together. I almost think that was the point at the end of the film, mark's lack of work on the relationship left the both of them adrift and yearning. Can you imagine anything more insipid to say than when Mark told Kurt, "That was awesome, Kurt," at the end of the trip. I think to myself, "That's it? You fool! You're on the verge of a new world, and all you can say is, 'that was awesome'!?" Then he goes on his way vacantly back to a world in which he acts purely as a bystander, back to a vapid world that prefigures him as a number, a vote to be counted, a member of the choir.
I guess we all make mistakes, but i find mark's lack of personal work on his relationship with Kurt and his failure to acknowledge and satisfy his own emotional needs to be the tragic flaw in the lives of the characters in the movie and indeed, possibly the scourge of the modern (thirty-something) man.