A chilling and frustrating movie that tries to say 'it's both their faults, and this is how it goes'. It shows how the worst qualities of the couple (especially the wife) come out full force against each other.
I couldn't help but feel that it was Cindy's fault. Distant and repelling from the start, Cindy goes to the affectionate and caring, if stupid, Dean when she's pregnant with another man's child (a note should be made: a pre-medical student does not know how to/ attempt to prevent a pregnancy immediately after sex? Instead she just washes herself after having unprotected sex....Then three months into it, decides to have an abortion. It's really not a wonder that she didn't end up a doctor).
Dean goes on to do more for her than any man can be expected to: first takes her to the clinic, then marries her....He even loves the daughter as his own. He repeatedly tries to be affectionate to Cindy, only to be repelled by her every time. When she meets the baby's father, who once beat up Dean like crazy, she makes conversation with him like he was a high school sweetheart or something.
So overall, it was just easier for me forgive Dean's character flaws: he smokes, he drinks, he's lazy and he makes excuses, to Cindy's repulsive attitude: she is consistently distant and repelling, obviously blames him for her dissatisfaction with life, and just can't let Dean in.
All in all, this movie seemed to me the case of a loving, if incapable man chasing after a distant and repelling woman. And he concedes defeat much too late.
I couldn't help but feel that it was Cindy's fault. Distant and repelling from the start, Cindy goes to the affectionate and caring, if stupid, Dean when she's pregnant with another man's child (a note should be made: a pre-medical student does not know how to/ attempt to prevent a pregnancy immediately after sex? Instead she just washes herself after having unprotected sex....Then three months into it, decides to have an abortion. It's really not a wonder that she didn't end up a doctor).
Dean goes on to do more for her than any man can be expected to: first takes her to the clinic, then marries her....He even loves the daughter as his own. He repeatedly tries to be affectionate to Cindy, only to be repelled by her every time. When she meets the baby's father, who once beat up Dean like crazy, she makes conversation with him like he was a high school sweetheart or something.
So overall, it was just easier for me forgive Dean's character flaws: he smokes, he drinks, he's lazy and he makes excuses, to Cindy's repulsive attitude: she is consistently distant and repelling, obviously blames him for her dissatisfaction with life, and just can't let Dean in.
All in all, this movie seemed to me the case of a loving, if incapable man chasing after a distant and repelling woman. And he concedes defeat much too late.