What was the point?


What was the point to this entire film? This bored, unhappy, unfulfilled privileged white woman takes in a stripper/escort in a bid to help her turn her life around, but by the end of the movie disregards her and puts her back on the streets where she found her?

What did she expect was gonna happen? a troubled young woman with abandonment issues, daddy issues, alcoholism, addiction problems, currently working as an escort and stripper at 22 to make ends meet was gonna be a non-issue? She confided in Rachel that she was struggling with sobriety and was on day 55, then when her actions at the poker game were a direct result of her relapsing, Rachel throws her out? Why not just send her to a rehab and actually help her? Encourage her to go to AA or go hunting for real jobs instead of accompanying her to her escort sessions?

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I don't think the movie delivers some big message or anything, but Rachel starts the whole thing because of sexual frustration. Her whole idea of fixing McKenna was a mix of bad memories from her own life (she described parts of it while drunk) and desire to feel young again. It didn't last long. As a parent, she felt concerned for the stripper, but I don't think she ever tried to really show her the right way. Most of her actions were selfish until she saw what McKenna really did for a living. From that point on she realized her mistake while taking a better look at her own damaged life. The happy ending (literally) was simply the culmination of her self-reflextion throughout the film.

I think the film fails in explaining why her marriage with Jeff doesn't work. It kind of relies on a simple explanation like "that's what happens with everyone" and that makes most of the scenes emotionally empty. It really seems as if the dicretor/writer, despite being ivolved with Six Feet Under, didn't know whether she was making a satire or a dramedy.

"We all go a little mad sometimes"
Anthony Perkins as Norman Bates - Psycho (1960)

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I don't get it, why would u think she kicked her out? there was no indication to me that she kicked her out
it seemed to me that the young girl got angry after feeling not trusted with others' kids despite she planned to buy them presents etc..
so she was acting in anger trying to seduce the husband and felt that if they don't trust her then she should be worse than ever, she tried to make it work as long as they trusted her
also she shouldn't get mad abt it or care, they trusted her with their own son but didn't wanna let her go near the others' kids as the others thought she was a nanny and didn't know the truth and they didn't wanna explain it to them.


"It is never about what happened, it is only how you look at it!"

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What does her being white have to do with it?

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You live in a pretty ideal world of no regrets and no repercussions. Rachel loses two friends from what McKenna does. And, it was more calculated than just a relapse. She had plans, cancelled them because she was angry, and made a play at Rachel's husband who was in the right frame of mind to reject the advance.

You just don't hug it out after that.

Amy: I swear to God...I swear to God! That is NOT how you treat your human!

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I agree. McKenna's actions were deliberate and started right after the husband told her she wasn't going to babysit for the little girls. She leans back and opens her legs to him. She was hurt and was going to get back at them. She was a very damaged and destructive person.

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She didn't have plans. She never had plans. She was free when she was originally asked to sit. It's alluded to during the kitchen scene that she's perhaps expected to be gone by the time the guys show up, but it was pretty apparent that she didn't actually have any other plans.

McKenna's actions might have been "calculated", but this is kinda pretty much the immature and brokenly justified reaction I would expect from a 22yo who's several times now been jilted by the woman who came to her, offered her friendship/help/assistance/etc... only to repeatedly deny/reject her over and over again at these personal and vulnerable junctions. She just kinda regressed into this old, familiar self-destructive behavior which was more primal than logical.

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Rachel didn't lose anything. Those "two friends" weren't really friends, just moms from the school she hung out with more just because of their kids than anything else. She even stated this in the last therapy session. She only really had the one friend, Stephanie. That close friendship was established at the very beginning of the movie, supported throughout and at the very end she was still there for her. The other moms were actually part of the original problem. She hated doing and trying to be one of "those" kind of moms. If anything it's actually hinted at that she might have started to gain another real friend in Kosher Amanda. They had their brief, but honest little moment at the end.

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She didn't have plans. She never had plans. She was free when she was originally asked to sit. It's alluded to during the kitchen scene that she's perhaps expected to be gone by the time the guys show up, but it was pretty apparent that she didn't actually have any other plans.

McKenna's actions might have been "calculated", but this is kinda pretty much the immature and brokenly justified reaction I would expect from a 22yo who's several times now been jilted by the woman who came to her, offered her friendship/help/assistance/etc... only to repeatedly deny/reject her over and over again at these personal and vulnerable junctions. She just kinda regressed into this old, familiar self-destructive behavior which was more primal than logical.

Also...

Rachel didn't lose anything. Those "two friends" weren't really friends, just moms from the school she hung out with more just because of their kids than anything else. She even stated this in the last therapy session. She only really had the one friend, Stephanie. That close friendship was established at the very beginning of the movie, supported throughout and at the very end she was still there for her. The other moms were actually part of the original problem. She hated doing and trying to be one of "those" kind of moms. If anything it's actually hinted at that she might have started to gain another real friend in Kosher Amanda. They had their brief, but honest little moment at the end.

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Lol. Agreed. What a waste of time. So lame

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Exactly! It was an unrealistically bizarre slice of life showing a sexually frustrated wife who doesn't know what she wants or how to achieve it. In the process of trying to navigate through what may satisfy her life and desires, she almost destroys her marriage along with her relationship with family and friends.

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