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Jenny is an immoral character and a liar....

posted 11 years ago by xfranco_uk
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I find her character immoral and dishonest.
She knows her "boyfriend" is nothing more than a conman but is more than willing to stay with him for the material perks afforded by ripping off old ladies.
Then at the end of the film she tells another male friend who invites her to Paris, that she has never been there before. Great way to start a relationship, they could be getting on fine and then he finds out she is a liar and had toured Paris with a former lover, so another person hurt in her wake.
Not a very nice person is our Jenny.

[–] alligatoruk 11 years ago

Its pretty clear that she pretended not to have been to Paris before to save the young guys feelings and probably to pretend to herself it didnt happen, as she was embarrassed at how stupid she had been to fall for Davids lies.

[–] xfranco_uk 11 years ago

I do agree with you...to a certain point. I am maybe being a bit of a devil's advocate here.
I just watched the film on UK tv....I enjoyed it thoroughly, but I think she was less than moral playing the part of a conmans moll, not that anyone is suggesting that she was particularly moral of course. I just read a few threads and no one seemed to have mentioned her less than admirable behaviour in this respect...I mean the two conmen actually mentioned ripping off old ladies, explicitly, and then, a little while later she was smiling about it and getting engaged to one of the perpetrators!

[–] alligatoruk 11 years ago

I do agree with you on that, though I think part of it is immaturity - underneath she knows those things are wrong but is so in awe of David and his lifestyle, that she ignores the immorality of it all. She thinks shes grown up and sophisticated but in the end, she is pretty dumb!

[–] xfranco_uk 11 years ago

Yes, good point.
I had not taken into consideration her age and immaturity...an awestruck young girl really....yes, I can understand and sympathise with that analysis.
Thanks.

[–] gonnabeabumpyride 11 years ago

Lynn Barber freely admits to many of the shortcomings you all are mentioning in the excerpt from her book that ran in The Guardian newspaper in the UK. I haven't read the book, but she herself says that she ignored all the things she knew about him and that she became as good a liar as he was. I found this link elsewhere on the site from a poster named GreatNewsTonight. It's an excellent read:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2009/jun/07/lynn-barber-virginity-re lationships

[–] cathy-creswell 9 years ago

Yes, that article is a must-read for anyone having seen the film, but not before, because spoilers.

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