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She doesnt let him off the hook, but his cluelessness becomes poignant.
So Anders is at once free and miserably trapped.
Then Charlie tells its him its PCP and breaks up.
The movies central motif rituals that dull pain and heighten unhappiness doesnt clobber you.
It seeps into you.
Its a cold world, Connecticuts Gold Coast.
The shock is how easy it has been for the rest of the world to move on without him.
Working a bit out of her comfort zone, she takes half an hour to find her rhythm.
The early scenes are nervously edited, for comedy.
Marvels posture is overly rigid shes a yoga nut but whats inside her pulsates, straining against its shell.
But thats what Anders doesnt have not yet.
Late-middle-aged and single, she suffers indignities but doesnt make her peace with them.
His self-destruction is a habit.
