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Arquette had such a look of gratitude when the restaurant guy says what he says, and she has it again (though a little more ambiguous--there's a trace of "You're telling me this now?") when Hawke thanks her at Mason's graduation party; she really is overlooked by almost everyone in her life.
― clemenza, Tuesday, September 9, 2014 7:31 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
she really is overlooked by almost everyone in her life
this point was not lost on me btw
i didn't type it out bc it was too depressing (and i thought clear?!) but yeah
― cross over the mushroom circle (La Lechera), Tuesday, September 9, 2014 7:42 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Arquette had such a look of gratitude when the restaurant guy says what he says
I like your read of the scene and all, but I did not get that from Arquette at all.
― a guy named Christian White who represents the typical white Christian (Eric H.), Tuesday, September 9, 2014 8:01 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
To me it felt like a mix of gratitude and surprise/shock. The one thing I'll say is that I think it's a film that deserves a second look; felt I got much more out of it the second time. (The three hours went by unusually quickly, too.)
― clemenza, Tuesday, September 9, 2014 8:26 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Arquette had such a look of gratitude when the restaurant guy says what he says
I'm with Eric, it was more like "Who IS this guy?"
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, September 9, 2014 10:57 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I'm with Eric, it was more like "Who IS this guy?"
It's possible to think both: "Wow, that's sweet. Who IS this guy?"
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, September 9, 2014 10:59 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
if I'm correctly assuming you wouldn't have gotten "Mom realizes she will die alone" from the crying
I might have, I might not have. I prefer it that way. (To use an exaggerated example, Stanley Kramer always tells me exactly what to think.)
― clemenza, Tuesday, September 9, 2014 11:13 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I'd have to look at it a third time to be sure--I'd never even considered the other possibility--but to me it seemed clear that Arquette knew who the restaurant guy was.
― clemenza, Tuesday, September 9, 2014 11:14 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Because she's a teacher and she remembers people!! It's a job skill. Her transformation from student to teacher was rly poignant IMO.
― cross over the mushroom circle (La Lechera), Tuesday, September 9, 2014 11:19 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I mean, I sometimes have a hard time remembering students when they come up to me five years after they've left my school--sometimes just the name, but sometimes who it even is--but there you're talking about people I knew when they where 12 or 13 who are now 18; the change is sometimes incredible. I thought the restaurant guy looked more or less the same as when he was working on Arquette's house.
― clemenza, Tuesday, September 9, 2014 11:24 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
For the record, she didn't teach that guy for an entire year. More like she said two sentences to him while standing outside her house.
― a guy named Christian White who represents the typical white Christian (Eric H.), Tuesday, September 9, 2014 12:23 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
That's all we see, but fair point--we don't really know how long he's been doing work for her. Could be a few weeks, but maybe it was just one afternoon.
― clemenza, Tuesday, September 9, 2014 12:53 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i really don't think they showed her advising a guy to go to school and then showed him thanking her for advising her to point out that she DIDN'T remember him
this is a richard linklater movie not a todd solondz movie
― da croupier, Tuesday, September 9, 2014 12:56 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
it was part of the whole "belated appreciation of mom" element of the last part of the film, and it resonated for me
― da croupier, Tuesday, September 9, 2014 12:57 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I know! But it isn't absurd to think she might have remembered him bc they had a meaningful interaction.
― cross over the mushroom circle (La Lechera), Tuesday, September 9, 2014 1:11 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
ll you were x-posting to eric, right? cuz i'm definitely on Team Mom Recognized Waiter (at least by story, if not on sight).
― da croupier, Tuesday, September 9, 2014 1:17 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
as a teacher myself who also sometimes forgets students I learned it takes a while to develop the public face when a stranger approaches and praises me; Arquette captured that awkwardness.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, September 9, 2014 1:22 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i'm definitely on Team Mom Recognized Waiter
let's have a softball game
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, September 9, 2014 1:24 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
as a teacher myself who also sometimes forgets students I learned it takes a while to develop the public face when a stranger approaches and praises me; Arquette captured that awkwardness.
otm. my mom was a prof and used to laugh about these kinds of public interactions. If anything I think she'd be more apt to remember this guy's story than she would a student she didn't have much personal interaction with.
― da croupier, Tuesday, September 9, 2014 1:29 PM (57 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
otherwise the implication would be that arquette was blithely going around pitching night school to everyone she meets, and i don't think that was the intended takeaway
― da croupier, Tuesday, September 9, 2014 1:30 PM (56 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
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