Novelist Julie Myerson and her husband, screenwriter Jonathan Myerson, offer widely differing views on what has been labelled the most depressing relationship film ever
Her View: 'After the sex, prepare for real life … or be torn apart'
How many terrible marriages begin this way? Dean and Cindy have only known each other a matter of weeks – and seem to have shared no more than a few laughs and a few orgasms – when she accidentally gets pregnant. Cindy has ambitions. She wants to study to be a doctor. With Dean's support, she books an abortion, only to find she can't go through with it.
Dean, meanwhile, who works for a removals firm and doesn't seem to boast much by way of professional ambition, is understanding. He puts his arms around her, says maybe they should be "a family". And so they marry, while knowing almost nothing about each other except that,...
Her View: 'After the sex, prepare for real life … or be torn apart'
How many terrible marriages begin this way? Dean and Cindy have only known each other a matter of weeks – and seem to have shared no more than a few laughs and a few orgasms – when she accidentally gets pregnant. Cindy has ambitions. She wants to study to be a doctor. With Dean's support, she books an abortion, only to find she can't go through with it.
Dean, meanwhile, who works for a removals firm and doesn't seem to boast much by way of professional ambition, is understanding. He puts his arms around her, says maybe they should be "a family". And so they marry, while knowing almost nothing about each other except that,...
- 2/7/2011
- by Jonathan Myerson, Julie Myerson
- The Guardian - Film News
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