Charlie St. Cloud

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(01-13-2012 06:50 PM)Fruitfly Wrote:  My favorite scene is when he punched the dude in the bar. It was such an alpha male moment for him, and that punch was so fast! It made me all soft and gushy on the inside, alot more than the icky, icky graveyard scene.

(01-14-2012 10:18 AM)d. b. wilyumz Wrote:  That's the scene I hate. First, it's totally gratuitous violence. But more importantly, it was a sucker punch without challenge or warning, and he left the scene immediately. Cowardly. What the movie doesn't show, if this were real life, is his arrest for assault and the subsequent civil suite; the black guy's dental insurance wouldn't have paid for the damage, Charlie would have.

I think that goes for almost every movie out there- gratuitous violence with no consequences lol, especially action movies.

At least this scene came from the book; which makes it more relevent to this movie.

Re: Charlie's 'madness', everyone I spoke to found the boat in the shed confusing. Because the movie didn't show Charlie talking to himself to any great extent or people's negative responses to that; I never got a real sense that people thought he was crazy. The audience- and his friend- accepted he talked to his brother/dead people.

It was only when the boat was back in the shed that it made you think WTH because his friend had seen him speaking to a spirit thereby making his affliction real.

If you went on the basis everything he did with a dead person was imagined then he wouldn't need to leave the house! Well that's how I saw it anyway

P.S Fruitfly, I agree, that scene showed that Charlie has anger/manliness and is not just the soft, gentle weirdo.