coffeecat Posted September 21, 2011 Posted September 21, 2011 I am wondering if any of you have seen the trailer for this new movie with Natalie Portman. Has this already been discussed? I did a search before I posted. I have never been cheated on, but this trailer pissed me off. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dq_Ws2xfplg
Author coffeecat Posted September 21, 2011 Author Posted September 21, 2011 *Wow! I feel like a dunce! I realize this is not a new movie but from 2009. Well... I never knew about it! I stumbled on the trailer while looking at another trailer on youtube! What the hell, though, let's talk about it! Did the movie glorify adultery? The whole idea pisses me off.
KR10N Posted September 21, 2011 Posted September 21, 2011 I was under the impression the guy was already divorced.
Bryanp Posted September 21, 2011 Posted September 21, 2011 I saw the movie and the guy was not divorced but the affair ended in him divorcing his wife with a child and marrying his lover. Most of the film is very very sad and difficult to watch.
Author coffeecat Posted September 22, 2011 Author Posted September 22, 2011 Well, I really want to watch it now. I will look for it this weekend after I am done taking all my school tests!
KR10N Posted September 22, 2011 Posted September 22, 2011 Geeze! I don't blame the ex for being a bitch.
StoneCold Posted September 22, 2011 Posted September 22, 2011 Geeze! I don't blame the ex for being a bitch. Maybe she was a bitch to begin with
ladydesigner Posted September 22, 2011 Posted September 22, 2011 What I find interesting is that she made a movie about "The Other Woman" and then became one herself lol. http://www.mamapop.com/2010/12/natalie-portland-is-the-other-woman.html
Summer Breeze Posted September 22, 2011 Posted September 22, 2011 I haven't watched the movie but it appears most of you haven't either so I figure I can comment as well. What's so annoying about it? It appears he had an A and he made a choice and left. I'm not condoning the A but it looks like he didn't fence sit and let both women sit in limbo. He made a choice and they tried to make it work. I agree the xW acted like a bltch but I did too when my child started developing a R with their stepmother. It had nothing to do with my xHs A. It had to do with feeling threatened as a mother. I know I had moments I was close to being a madwoman but I adjusted and so did my child. I would have been happier if my xH had made a choice and left rather than me confront him and have him begging to stay.
Kinder-Horror Posted September 22, 2011 Posted September 22, 2011 What's so annoying about it? It appears he had an A and he made a choice and left. I'm not condoning the A but it looks like he didn't fence sit and let both women sit in limbo. He made a choice and they tried to make it work. I agree the xW acted like a bltch but I did too when my child started developing a R with their stepmother. Totally agree. I don't think it glorifies adultery either. It isn't like the whole movie (based on the trailer) is about some wonderful affair and how happy they are. It seems that the man chose to leave his wife and be with the woman (which may be worse than being monogamous, but it is better than staying with his wife and continuing the affair), and the movie is about the struggles with that and thereafter. I suppose Titanic glorified cruises as well.
carhill Posted September 22, 2011 Posted September 22, 2011 Summary of the book the movie was based on: "Emilia Greenleaf is an attorney living in New York city with her husband, John Woolf. Emilia is stepmother to John's remarkablly intelligent four-year-old son, William. William lives primarily with his mother, the medical doctor Carolyn Soule. It is Emilia's job, however, to pick up William from his nursery school every Wednesday afternoon. When she picks him up, Emilia is often subjected to snide glances and whispers from the other mothers because, it transpires, her relationship with her husband began when he was still with his wife. They had an office affair, and eventually the marriage dissolved. The reader also learns early on that Emilia and John recently lost their own child together, a girl they named Isabel. They had the baby home for only one day, as she died overnight of SIDS in Emilia's arms after being fed. The bulk of the story deals with the results of Isabel's death, including the strain this puts on Emilia and John's marriage, as well as Emilia's feelings towards William. Emilia does not particularly like William (in fact, she describes him as "insufferable" early on in the story), but tries to be a good parent to him. This is hindered by the fact that William serves as his mother's mouthpiece, and sometimes speaks in a very matter-of-fact way about Isabel's death." To me it appears to be a family drama with a provocative title. Given the loss of the bio child to SIDS, the stepmother/post-OW conflict gets played up. I can see why there would be marked sadness. Life is complex.
Bugz Bunny Posted September 23, 2011 Posted September 23, 2011 How the novel ends...??? What happened with Emillia and her husband...??? I cant buy/find the novel in my country and all say that the movie is different from the novel...
Summer Breeze Posted October 2, 2011 Posted October 2, 2011 I just finished watching this film and I have to say I enjoyed it. As much as you can a horribly sad film where you're rooting for everyone in it! The A was obviously a big part of what happened and was a catalyst for how things went from A to B. It was them dealing with the aftermath of the A and what a family looked like and the death of a baby and loads of sniping from all sides. They didn't make one party look worse than another. I'm going to go wipe my eyes and blow my nose now!
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