Imzadi
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- Oct 29, 2004
I finally watched The More Love Grows. I’m kind of ambivalent about this one. I feel like if the husband had been Andrew Walker, they would have gotten back together. But take my opinion with a grain of salt. I’ve been married 30 years so I tend to believe you might need to adjust and grow after awhile. This could have easily been the mom becoming more independent, the husband loving it, and them agreeing to try to move forward. It’s just hard for me to believe she was out of love with her husband of 20 years after 6 weeks. I don’t think I could manage that if I wanted to
Yes, I thought it would have been interesting and unpredictable had they cast the husband with an actor in which we weren't sure if she would go back to him after all. Casting Warren Christie as the new guy and Andrew Walker as her husband would have been fantastic, complex and different. It would have made us wonder the whole time which guy she decides to be with at the end. (That would have been a Netflix level movie. And yes, one lead actor who always gets the girl, would have had to suck it up and be the guy who lost in this one.)
I also thought the way she blew her husband off at the end was a bit off. It's not like she had felt something was wrong with the marriage for a long time, the way he did. She was the one blindsided and actually thought it was good. So, at the end when he sees how she is more the way she was at the beginning of their relationship, before they had a child and their priorities changed, I could have seen where she could have given the marriage a chance.
And they didn't quite show that things were sizzling in regard to her feelings with Warren Christie. If anything, she purposely kept things on a slow burner. Which, on the one hand was good, her being cautious as she wasn't even divorced yet. But, the thing with feelings is that one can plan all they want on how to proceed, but sometimes, feelings work on a different time table and are messy. And her feelings for Warren were a little too pat. Had she been over the moon about him, I could understand better her saying yes, her marriage is truly over.
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