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Vera, Moon Bloodgood's character


I thought she was fantastic - both Bloodgood's portrayal and the character herself. She was understanding, sympathetic, but still professional.
I think she definitely loved him in her own way, and I really don't understand the film or anybody who thinks otherwise.

And I couldn't believe the disrespect the film showed her at the end.

Spoilers ahead:

At his funeral, they said three women loved him - Amanda, Cheryl and Susan. Implying that Vera did not love him. I believe the only way you can say that Vera did not love him is if you believe that love equates with sex. Meaning that if you don't love him in a sexual way, it's not really love and you don't matter.
I saw this movie five months ago but I still get so offended by the film ignoring Vera's importance. I'm assuming she's a real-life person, and I find the ending so disrespectful to her.


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If that's the case, they should've also mentioned his mom and sister. They mentioned them because he had feelings for them as well (one way or another).

Also, I think it's very mature of you (unlike other users) to not give it a bad rating just because you don't think a sex surrogate is different from a hooker.

By the way, can you change your site? I've been suscribed to you for over a year, but I can never comment.

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I agree that the character and Bloodgood's performance were both great.

I think you may be overreacting to (or at least misunderstanding) the "love" comment. We can take that Amanda, Cheryl, and Susan are the women who he either had an actual romance with (Susan) or he felt close to it, like he could imagine it happening (Amanda and Cheryl).

Remember too that Mark was a poet and romanticized things. So he was referring to the women he saw in a romantic light. He didn't see Vera that way, and part of it may have been--as you said--that she was so professional. And when you think of it, there were other people that probably "loved" him too--the priest, Rod possibly, Carmen (the woman in the wheelchair), and maybe some others who we didn't meet, but were also present at the funeral.

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I loved her character - think she might have been my favourite one in the film! Like others I don't think she should have been included as one of the women he loved and didn't find her exclusion disrespectful. The priest was making a difference between all the women in his life and to whom he might have had an attachment versus those he 'fell in love with' and, in the case of Susan, loved.

I'm not trying to break your heart,
I'm just trying hard not to fall apart

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Didn't HE say he loved three women? Which I found sad, she may not have slept with him but she did look after him, you'd think he'd feel a little love for him too.





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