Don't see Matt and Mavis 'scene' as believable...

moviefool, your username is making me think that you are being deliberately obtuse. The scene made perfect sense. It illustrated how far Mavis had fallen from her high school days; sleeping with a guy she barely acknowledged before. And Matt may not have been much to look at, but he was a decent human being, the type that pretty girls always look to when all else fails.

Why is this so hard to believe?

"Oh, Britta's in this?"

I thought that scene was very believable.
Her sexuality was always a tool to give her the advantage, she always had some sort of strategy: her carefully applied makeup, her meticulous clothing habits,
In the scene with Matt was when all those layers came off, she was naked albeit with some chicken cutlet bra and stockings but she peeled off her defenses and shared an honest moment with Matt. In that moment two desperate people needing something and using each other to get it is shown.
Once day breaks we can see that the facade is back on, she is dressed in a black t-shirt while he is still naked next to her still vulnerable but knowing it will not last and she puts back on her stained silk dress and leaves.
I think it symbolizes that although she is not going to grow up tomorrow she is moving forward. Her leaving is her way of closing book on her past and maybe waking up from this teenage fantasy.

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You're cockblocking for a lot of us out there. Zip it!

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I think the movie makes it clear that they're both very similar, in how life has passed them by, for various reasons. That made them FRIENDS...but the whole hooking up scene, I found to be very out of place in this film.

Eh I thought the scene was very believable. All throughout the movie she had been turning to Matt. After Buddy, after her parents and after the party. When they are in the bar and he says "you are a piece of work" and she replies with "you are a piece of shyt" she smiles at him in a way that suggests (well to me it did) that she liked being with him more than a friend.

Even pushing that observation aside I thought the scene was beautifully done. She just got done telling everyone that her body is "broken" and here she is standing in front of Matt who is "broken" too. They cover themselves for a few seconds then they choose to stand there without anything to hide behind, and that is when she says "hide me". Maybe sex was a detour to get out of what she was feeling at the moment, maybe not. I just really loved that scene, and yes I secretly wanted Matt to go with her, but I was more glad that the movie didn't go in that direction.


If it was any other movie I would agree with you, but they were just so great together it is impossible to say that it wasn't believable.




Hey Linda..........You're a bitch!

yeah, that scene kind of weakened the movie for me, but I still enjoyed it a lot.. 8/10

Mavis couldn't cope with rejection and Matt was her cushion to lean on. I believed it. I believe Matt's dialogue was too mechanical and that's why the scene was hard to believe.