Posted by Jost on July 31, 2006, at 22:43:23
In reply to Re: Bloody Links, posted by Dr. Bob on July 29, 2006, at 1:23:22
Here's the precis for "Happiness":
"When a young woman (Jane Adams) rejects her current overweight suitor (Jon Lovitz) in a restaurant, he unexpectedly places a curse on her. The film then moves on to her sisters. One (Cynthia Stevenson) is a happily married woman with a psychiatrist husband (Dylan Baker) and three kids. Unfortunately the husband develops an unnatural fascination for his 11 year old son's male classmates, fantasizes about mass killing in a park, and masturbates to teen magazines. One of his patients (Philip Seymour Hoffman) has an unrequited fascination for the third sister (Lara Flynn Boyle). Meanwhile the apparently stable 40 year marriage of the sister's parents (Ben Gazzara, Louise Lasser) suddenly unravels when he decides he has had enough and wants to live a hermit's life in Florida. Obviously, the whole movie is slightly warped in its viewpoint and certainly presents abnormal relationships among all of its parties."
Am I missing something, or aren't the "sister's parents" in the next-to-last sentence ("the apparently stable 40 year marriage...") the supposed protagonist's (ie, the woman played by Jane Adams) parents, too? And if so, wouldn't it make more sense to say, "the woman's parents"-- instead?
And what happened to this woman? Does she appear in the movie after the first scene with Jon Lovitz?
And how likely is it that a psychiatrist--even if he's fascinated with his 11 year old son's classmates, which is already improbable, but who knows?-- would fantasize about mass killings (in a park, yet?) ???
Hmm. "A little warped..."
Jost
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