How are we to interpret the ending?
I'm not really sure what we're supposed to think. Anyone?
shareWe could think everything,her husband is old,for exemple
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I think it's open to interpretation. I'd like to think she leaves her husband and they end up together, but Jim is kind of unstable. Their relationship is built more on nostalgia than reality.
sharePerhaps she does leave her husband but I think Jim is probably too immature and selfish.
shareI don't see Jim as selfish at all. He was honest an open. He let her in and was honest about how he felt. He didn't push her into this. She knew she had other responsibilities but she chose to keep staying with him.
Maybe she was the selfish one, knowing that he might still love her, but only wanting sex and nothing else. But I don't think it's about selfishness. The film very clearly expresses a contrast, for reasons beyond me at the moment, that Jim is the more emotionally open one. He can cry, she cannot. I feel like over and over again they are pulling closer together but she has to shut it down.
I agree, I don't think Jim is selfish, he's was straight out honest with her about his life and how unhappy he is. He basically admits at the end he messed up and wished he didn't. He's a troubled man and probably letting loose at the end and been forgiven by Amanda will let him go on and live his life and find himself a good woman.
Amanda is the more interesting character, I don't get the feeling her marriage to her older husband is as great as she portray's to Jim. I definitely think their are feelings there but I think by the end I think Amanda probably snaps out of it and is ready to move on. I think she cares for Jim and is probably deeply worried for him. She's troubled herself.
There's nothing to suggest she leaves her husband. Paulson and Duplass's relationship suffered a trauma through the loss of their child and even though they both still harboured feelings for each other, the road back to their early lives was impossible to re-navigate without a permanent reminder of the emotional baggage.
That's unfortunately just the way life is sometimes. In the closing moments of the movie, they at least confront it and manage to unburden themselves a little from the psychological pain but I don't personally see it as a happy ending. It maybe just offers a little bit of consolation for their decade-long mutual blame.
I agree.
If anything, the movie shows us the relationship truly is not salvageable. He still blames her for doing it, and she blames him for not being more responsible and mature. They don't make it 24 hours without the issue coming to a head, over a long period it would be disastrous.
That's what I took from the ending, I don't see Amanda and Jim getting back together and that probably be the last time in the car park they ever see of one another. But at least it's a burden off both Jim and Amanda's chest's as both have clearly been emotional damaged by the loss of a child and their relationship. I get the vibe that Jim probably never had a relationship since Amanda and was beaten down by guilt and loss for Amanda and their unborn child. I think Amanda loves her husband and her step kids, but probably needed something like the night with Jim just to let the emotional baggage go. Both will probably be somewhat better for it going forward.
I wouldn't call it a happy or sad ending, it's a honest ending for two damaged people. I don't see them getting back together and living happily ever after. I think both probably need some help and keeping apart from one another will be for the better.
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It's up to the audience Interpretation really.
I'm not thinking she's leaving her husband, even with the kiss I didn't get the vibe her marriage was loveless. My take on the ending is I think Jim probably has healed a few wounds as has Amanda and both can move on now. He seemed like the whole loss of his child with Amanda and their relationship breaking up had an massive effect on his well being, I got the feeling he probably never had another relationship or let anyone get close to him since Amanda. He probably had a few one night stands but I think Amanda was his only serious girlfriend in 22 years. Amanda, who thought Jim was a bit of childish heartless teenager, finds out with the letter that he cared deeply for during that time. I think that probably be the last time they probably meet up.
For a good part of the film I was expecting a twist of Amanda not been married and the food not been for her sister but for her and that like Jim, she was a lonely soul.