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"You don't think so, or you don't think that I'm the one?"
southendmd:
I swear I've practically memorized this film!
I particularly love the layers of ambiguity. Poor Cassie. "You get your point across", but she doesn't get the real point.
This kinda reminds me of a scene in A Single Man. Colin Firth is in the bank when a neighbor's daughter approaches him. She says, "Mom says you're light in the loafers, but you're not even wearing loafers!"
Shakesthecoffecan:
Yes, I think Cassie was focusing on her own feelings of being used. Beyond that she has no incite into what was causing that.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: southendmd on February 15, 2018, 10:55:04 am ---I swear I've practically memorized this film!
I particularly love the layers of ambiguity. Poor Cassie. "You get your point across", but she doesn't get the real point.
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It's been w-a-a-a-y too long for me. I'm not here to argue a point, but can anybody refresh my memory on why Junior's comments indicate that she knows her father is gay?
--- Quote ---She says, "Mom says you're light in the loafers, but you're not even wearing loafers!"
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:laugh:
southendmd:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on February 15, 2018, 01:01:17 pm ---It's been w-a-a-a-y too long for me. I'm not here to argue a point, but can anybody refresh my memory on why Junior's comments indicate that she knows her father is gay?
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We don't know exactly what she knows, but her choice of idiom suggests she may.
Didn't you post this? https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/not-be-the-marrying-kind
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: southendmd on February 15, 2018, 03:11:32 pm ---We don't know exactly what she knows, but her choice of idiom suggests she may.
Didn't you post this? https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/not-be-the-marrying-kind
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Yes, I did, but I read that as indicating a man may be gay, but apparently it doesn't necessarily mean he's gay.
If my research skills were better, it might be interesting to know something of the history of the usage.
It's been so long I have no recollection of when (year) that scene took place, and how old Junior was at the time. Perhaps one or both may have influenced her choice of words. ("What did she know, and when did she know it?") Or is she just generally pissed off and rude to Cassie because she was expecting quality time alone with her daddy, and he brings her along. I don't think I ever understood that as being "time you met my daughter." I think I felt it was just Ennis being socially tone-deaf.
And then again, maybe she does know he's gay and that's what she means. I just don't remember ever being convinced of that, or possibly even assuming that's what she meant. It may never even have occurred to me.
As I remember it, it seem to me that Ennis seems so antisocial that it strikes me as something of a wonder that he even hooks up with Cassie, or the unnamed would-be nursing student he puts the blocks to later.
It's all so long ago, yet I can't even imagine going back to watch the film even to review this scene..
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