Intriguing

Rating: 8/10 (19 February 2007)

It has been a long time since I lost sleep trying to understand moments from a movie. Am I the only person in the audience who thought that Angelina (Clover) was already pregnant and looking for a "fall guy" to marry? I can see that the son was supposed to look like Matt (Wilson), but I certainly would have wondered if I'd been set up and wondered whether or not the son was my own or not. Apparently he saw enough of himself in the boy to to come to love him as his own, but I can't really say that I blame him for taking the first opportunity to get out of town. What on earth did Angelina expect after she attacked him at first meeting and then roped him into marriage? Her obvious affair, lack of communication with her husband during his absence (neglecting to even mention her brother's death - in Burma? Was that supposed to be CIA business too? ), and request for separate bedrooms -made me wonder what the fuss was about when she found that he had had his own affairs. The jealous act simply didn't make sense...And we were supposed to get that she was a "good" mother? She seemed totally out of it throughout the movie. What about the other Yale boy who approached him after his induction into Scull & Bones about his father's betrayal..and then his apparent accusation after the Baby of Pigs disaster? When I read the other reviews, no one else seems to think that the whole pregnancy thing was a set up...but it seemed too clear to us watching the video at home.
Anyway, I'd love to read the script to follow along a little better.