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Perfect date movie, and you might like it too.
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I can't tell what it's about other than "a little French girl" and possibly an imaginary friend?
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Steve, you have just captured the magic of the film. It is enchanting.
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Steve and Shaun, let me take a stab at getting at what the movie is about. I recently took a course on writing in the humanities and it taught me a lot about how to interpret and understand ambiguous literature like this. I'm much more used to reading and writing where there is a black and white, right or wrong, answer to everything. So, much like reading a Tabs thread, you need to expand your interpretation to be more abstract thinking.
The key is that the narrator, in this case the little girl who is the main character, is an unreliable narrator. The viewer is put in a quandary. Do you believe that the character's perceptions are reported accurately and reflect reality? If you do, then you're called to believe that something supernatural is at work. If you don't believe there is a supernatural explanation, then the girl's perception, or her reporting of her perception is faulty. You, as the reader or viewer don't know what to believe, because you have no frame of reference. All you know is that the main character's thoughts and perceptions are real to her and she is reporting them as she believes she experiences them. The main character can't make sense of her own situation and is trying to find explanations for her own seemingly inexplicable experiences. The main character may be so traumatized by something in her past that she is subconsciously misinterpreting events as a coping device. It's up to the viewer to decide for himself what is real, imagined, and whether the girls has accurately analyzed her own situation, and if not, why not, and what is the real truth of the situation. The movie is then intended to be a metaphor for something larger, that the viewer has to figure out for himself.
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good lord man you just could've said the imaginary friend is her mom and that's why she wears a red sweater.
Looks like a good movie! I gotta admit i like reading subtitles so I don't wander away.
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Oh Gawd...now we're into chick flicks???
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If they are good then yeah. Nobody suggested you watch "Beaches" or "Under the Tuscan Sun."
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Hey, hey, hey. He's not about to change his burlap tighty-whities for a satin thong!
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exactly! The mom isn't imaginary. The imaginary friend is the mom. why do i have to explain everything to you boyz
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You have somehow ascribed the nature of EE to PM, Mike, which is very interesting and would actually make for a good movie. Just a very different movie. It's nice to have PM as beloved warm sweater that loves you when you as you slide your arms through the sleeves and poke your head through the neck. It's comfortable and reminiscent of days gone by, reaffirming who you are and where you've been. Such a delightful movie.
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Same director, Portrait of a Lady on Fire was also excellent.
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