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for people who have seen the movie (Spoilers)


If Doris hadnt done the facebook thing that got Brooklyn mad at john,do you think that they would of stayed together or would they have ended breaking up anyway

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Yes I do. They really seemed to like each other; if not love.

What Doris did was horrible.

And I can't believe she didn't take it upon herself in the end to contact Brooklyn to explain what she did.

I also hope that he wasn't running to the elevator to ask Doris out on a date.

For me, the movie was so good until the last few minutes. I think that Doris was in the wrong and should have stepped up.

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I didn't think it was so bad. I think she should have owned up to Brooklyn, since she was so sweet to Doris, but if anything, the post read like a break-up post. It looked bad, sure, but he could have proven to Brooklyn that it was some kind of weird fluke.

I think they may have still broken up if Doris hadn't interfered. Brooklyn was sensitive about having been cheated on in the past, and had trust issues surrounding it, which might have caused her to misinterpret an innocent situation in the future. Besides, she'd already broken up with him via text (right? was that her? it wasn't clear)... if their relationship was actually new, then I think she kind of overreacted.

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I agree

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Yes, I think they would've stayed together.

I expected Doris to fix things with Brooklyn.

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Doris seemed like a sweetie. I like to think that she did later.

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She sure took her time if she did.

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I didn't think it was so bad.

What Doris did was horrible. She was a sympathetic character until that point. It doesn't matter if John and Brooklyn might or might not have broken up afterwards. She should have explained to both of them what happened.

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What Doris did was horrible.

That part of the film gets dismissed on this board. What Doris did was horrible. No honest and fair person can make an excuse for her that it wasn't. That was a major character disappointment and one that seems to get glossed over by the fans of the film.

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When I was talking about whether I thought they would break up or not, I wasn't justifying Doris's behavior with that- I was answering a question the OP wrote in the first post.

I don't think what she did was so bad because she didn't do it with the intention of harming John, Brooklyn, or their relationship. She was drunk and hurt. What she did was stupid, but not malicious. And like with most mistakes, not owning up to it is worse than what the actual mistake was. Even if she took her time, I like to think that she told Brooklyn the truth and apologized off camera. She had given up all hope of John, plus Brooklyn was really sweet, and nice to Doris, AND it was the right thing to do. I have faith that Doris did the right thing. She is not shown to be a selfish or malicious person in the movie, just a lonely, damaged person making up for lost time.

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What she did wasn't on the level of killing someone. It wasn't like she killed his cat. Come on she was his friends and sometimes friends do dumb shyte band you know what..you forgive them and get past it.

The difference between young generation and older is you do learn to forgive and forget. But in a Tinder/Grindr age relationships are so transient.
Even the girl Brooklyn was ready to ditch John so quickly because she read some other girl's comment on John's facebook page..WTF?




what Jordie?

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Nobody said it was the moral equivalent of murder. But, it was a major betrayal and a nasty passive-aggressive, horrible thing to do to a friend.

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And how many friends that you have that never did something stupid....so you get pissed and get over it. My goodness that is how friendships evolve.
And what she did was the equivalent of what many people do when they get drunk...suppose you never heard of people who drunk text somebody either..


what Jordie?

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The real question is, why didn't John realize her profile page was fake?

Unless someone is much older, very young, or new to social media sites like Facebook, most people are able to spot a fake or newly created personal page and deny or ignore the friend request. If we assume he knew it was a fake page and just didn't care enough to unfriend, he should have pointed that out to his girlfriend.

At the very least, his girlfriend should have looked at the newly created profile page and been smart enough to realize that someone was trying to interfere with their relationship. If she wasn't smart enough to recognize that, then hopefully John would have been smart enough to find someone brighter.

Not to mention, the comment was dramatic and comical. Hardly anyone openly posts comments like that unless they're joking. I'm not saying I would have completely brushed it off because I'd still question why someone was trying to go out of their way to write that, but I'd be laughing over it before getting mad.

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Yea, what Doris did wasn't nice. But she stole a guys pencil, modeled herself after his FB interests and dissed her best friend for him! She was a great and understandably awkward character throughout, I thought, but found her FB post to John to be one of the more "wow, I could see myself doing this after months of stalking and being drunk" than anything else. It seems like everyone is most upset with her hand in breaking them up, but that seems to me to be the lesser of weird things she did in the movie.

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It seems to me, whether Doris posted on his FB or not, it seemed as if Brooklyn and John would have broken up. There was that insecurity there and complete lack of trust. I mean, its FB!! If one FB post causes a break up, then obviously, that relationship was not secure or long lasting to begin with. Brooklyn had s/e issues. In the LGBT rooftop knitting group, she tells Doris, that the "FB girl" has a masters! I mean, a masters! OK, but come on.... Again, its FB!!! If you can't believe or trust the man you are dating, then you have no business being in a relationship with him and vice versa.

Not that what Doris did was OK or in any right, acceptable, but who hasn't messed up, whilst drunk or emotional, be it on social media or in a text?? She learned her lesson, the hard way and I'm sure both John and Brooklyn figured their relationship was not exactly long term.



“There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.”~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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what doris did on his facebook page was very wrong and slightly creepy. i just did not think that the brooklyn relationship was a big enough part of the storyline to let it distract me. i feel like most of the other posters on here would disagree since a lot of people are concerned about whether or not she tried to rectify the situation...

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