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why didn't Randy just lie to his daughter that he had a heart attack?

posted a year ago by filmgeek99 (618)
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When Randy goes to see his daughter after he missed out on their dinner date, why didn't he just lie that he had a heart attack? It seemed like such an obvious thing to do, but instead, he lies about having had one too many drinks. Why?

Come to think of it, why didn't Stephanie even ask whether that was the reason why he didn't show up? Even if her first thought was that he was neglecting her again, how the hell did she not once ever consider that possibility?

That whole scene felt very contrived and poorly scripted to me. It was as though Aronofsky and his writer knew they had to end the movie on a sad note, but didn't know how to get there so they just made up that scene up at the last minute.

Anyone?

[–] daredevil1 (102) 7 months ago

I think part of the problem is that the actress playing the daughter is so strident and unreasonably unlikeable (she seems like she hates him just for being a man before anything else) that it's hard to separate her over the top reaction from his genuine failings, at least in this moment. I don't think it was unreasonable that he missed the dinner date for being asleep from the night before. Unforgivable if he missed it for doing coke with the hooker INSTEAD, but not 18 hours previously. She didn't even ask him what happened and he did show up admittedly a little late. It just reeked of false melodrama. I think if it had been a sweeter actress like I don't know, Liv Tyler? He'd seem more at fault.