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Baby Party - 2005-04-01 10:43:03
The plot of Swimming Pool, in my opinion, was an extended metaphor for the creative process. I loved it, by the way.
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I wombat - 2005-04-01 12:44:49
I liked it also. The ending, it seemed to me, revealed that the whole story at the house, was invented by her, in the house, it wasn't what was happening, but what she was writting. Well that's clever, but I liked the story enough to enjoy it more when it was "real" rather than not. Perhaps it was more interesting this way, but it undercut the emotional engagement for me.
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Paula - 2005-04-01 14:21:17
Wombat, many people saw it that way, but I felt sad that it was so simple. I really want Julie to have existed.
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I wombat - 2005-04-01 15:47:53
well yeah, that's what I felt, it was a little like the literary version of "oh it was all just a dream" but it wasn't even necessary, to back out of some untenable plot twist or anything, they just decided to make the whole story not real, I don't know, is there another way to interpret the ending?
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Paula - 2005-04-01 15:53:06
The IMDB message boards are rife with theories.
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Baby Party - 2005-04-01 16:36:10
The Julie in the novel-within-a-movie exists just as much as the Julie-in-the-movie. That is to say, not at all. The ending did not feel tacked on to me - it seem plausible to me that it was conceived from the start as being about a woman writing a novel (and I seem to remember some clues early on that things were not quite adding up). I never have the same reaction that many people seem to these films (Usual Suspects, Jacob's Ladder) - the revelations at the end don't affect my emotional reaction.
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