The Official "gravida" reaction thread

[pryor15]

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are we, then, supposed to infer that the pregnancy is the reason for the absent boyfriend?

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yes. there's nothing that comes right out and says it, other than the line that he got cut out because he deserved it. but in the backstory stuff i wrote out, he leaves a little while after he finds out she's pregnant.

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Cutting the face out in an oval as opposed to just snipping the whole body out of the picture doesn't necessarily tell us anything either, except that she's a bit eccentric and vindictive -- but we don't know the reason. If she really didn't want to be reminded of him, she would have cut him out completely, don't you think?

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yeah, and there's another picture in the film that she's ripped in half as a means to delete him.

there was a lot of discussion as to how to do that photo and how to cut him out while still having the photo

the key is that the photo is a picture of 4 people and a reminder of a happier time with a larger group, so she wants to keep that memory, only she wants to remember it minus the ex

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It sort of separates at the end (for me, anyway) because she has this baggage, and she can possibly realize that the baggage isn't in her belly; it's all around her.

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exactly. it's more than just the pregnancy. it's everything, really.