You could do anything you wanted to do. You're good at everything that you do. Isn't there something else you wanna do? Dean : Than what? Than be your husband? Than being Frankie's dad?
What do you want me to do? I just You can do so many things. You have such capacity. Dean : For what? Cindy : I don't You can sing, you can draw, you can Cindy : dance. Dean : [Exhales] Listen, I didn't wanna be somebody's husband, okay? And I didn't wanna be somebody's dad. But somehow I've I didn't know that. And it's all I wanna do.
That's what I want to do. Cindy : I'd like to see you have a job where you don't have to start drinking at 8 o'clock, in the morning, to go to it. What a luxury, you know? I get up for work, I have a beer, I go to work, I paint somebody's house - they're excited about it. I come home, I get to be with you. Like, this is the dream. Cindy : Doesn't it ever disappoint you? Dean : Why? Why would it disappoint me? I could still do whatever I could do.
Cindy : Because you have all this potential. Dean : So what? Why do you have to fucking make money off your potential? Cindy : Look, I'm not even saying you have to make money off it. Do you miss it? Dean : What does potential mean?
What does even potential mean? What does that mean, "potential"? Potential for what? To turn it into what? Cindy : We rarely sit down and have an adult conversation because every time we do You just Start blabbing. Dean : If you're not interested in what I have to say, then maybe I just shouldn't say anything. Cindy : [laughs]. Dean : Can I talk to you for a second? Cindy : Why? Dean : You think I stole that money, don't you? Yeah, you do. Cindy : No.
Dean : Look, I've stolen money before, okay, I know what it's like to get busted. That's what it feels like. I didn't steal it. I've got a job. This is my job. Cindy : Okay, I got it. Dean : I make money. Money I can take girl's out to dates with. Just so you know. Dean : Tell me a joke. Cindy : So there's a child molester and a little boy walking into the woods. The child molester and the little boy keep walking further and further. And it's getting darker and darker. And they're going deeper and deeper into the woods.
And the child molester The little boy looks at the child molester and he says, "Gee, mister! I'm getting scared. I gotta walk outta here alone. Cindy : You don't think that's funny? Dean : No. Cindy : I do. Dean : What are you doing? Cindy : What does it look like I'm doing? Dean : Gettin' all wet and naked.
Cindy : [flashback to their wedding day] What are you thinking about? Dean : I wish they would hurry up so you can't change your mind. Let's go, let's go, let's go. Like, I have to sing stupid. Cindy : You're actually good. Dean : Cindy I may Cindy : What are you doing here? Dean : Oh, you're awful friendly right now, aren't you? Cindy : I'm just surprised to see you. Dean : Oh, is this where all the smiles happen?
This the smile room, huh? Take off, you leave me, you don't tell me what's going on. I was so God-damned worried, I thought something might've happened to Frankie. I don't know what the hell happened. Dean : [slurred speech] Look, okay, I know everything got fucked up last night, okay?
Cindy : I can't believe you show up here, drunk. Dean : Hey, I'm talking to you. Hey, I know that Cindy : Can you drive? Dean : What? Cindy : I said, can you drive? What kind of question is that?
Of course I can drive. I know how to drive. Dean : What the fuck is the matter, you got a glass jaw or something? You can't take one hit? It's one hit. Cindy I found Megan. Dean : How many times did I tell you to lock the fucking gate? Dean : Babe, that's how they laugh in the future! Cindy : They're old.
Would you wanna live like that? Dean : What, in that home? Well, no. But I'm not getting old. And he's a dummy for dying. But to do that, the couple would have had to have got to know each other properly, had fewer accidents, more planned children you think it's hard with one child, Cindy — you wait till they outnumber you and, of course, there would have had to be some decent and realistic dialogue.
Where I thought the film was almost strong, and certainly far more honest, was in the scene where Dean insists on taking Cindy for a "romantic" night away at what turns out to be a comically sleazy sex motel. He — romantic in the purest, laziest and most useless way — thinks that all it will take to fix their marriage is a long night of drinking and sex. She — an ambitious working mother whose husband is content that his blue-collar drudgery allows him to stay drunk all day — is frankly just shattered.
She needs a cup of tea, an early night, a man who's prepared to talk to her, listen to her, put his arms around her. The exact opposite of a sex motel, in fact. I loved the look on Michelle Williams's face — simultaneously weary and crestfallen — as she stood and surveyed the enormous revolving bed. And the scene which followed: he just wanted the sex to be sweet and romantic, even mentioning the possibility of another baby; she was so angry and misunderstood that she couldn't even bring herself to kiss him and in fact just wanted the sex to be unkind.
This scene, at last, touched me. It was real, it was ugly and it was painful. And because it didn't offer any answers, it took us to a far more honest — and less comfortable — place.
Beware the special occasion. Little is more likely to destroy a relationship — or at least bring its fault lines nastily to the surface — than New Year's Eve, the anniversary special date or, as in the case of Blue Valentine 's Dean, a night in the Future Room of "a cheesy sex motel".
Because if there's one thing we know when Dean chooses this room instead of Cupid's Cave , it's that this relationship Has No Future. Yet it seems so much like the right thing to do.
Drop the kid at grandpa's and spend some unhassled time together. The trouble is that he is placing their relationship — faltering, distant, not quite yet dysfunctional — foursquare into the harsh glare of What Next? This is where Blue Valentine hits it on the nail: once the staring is over, the two sexes now seem to have wholly differing and, more important, incompatible agendas.
In the movie, she sidesteps his sexual advances until they get the time to sit and talk about his career, his "potential", and thus their future. He avoids the question — after all, he came here to "get drunk and make love". She balks at his unwillingness ever to talk seriously; he unsuccessfully tries to hide his grumpiness. Once that point is reached, sex is the last thing on anyone's mind. This man's agenda may sound horribly cliched, but he's not quite as predictable as this makes out.
Dean is in fact a New Man, he has changed to meet the times. Asked what he wants to do with his life, he says he wants to "be a husband and father" and dutifully does his wage-slave job in order to make that possible.
And he has every claim to be a good father: he's putting both time and energy into bringing up their five-year-old. What's more he's the one determined to inject some fun, some lightness back into the marriage. But it's cruel. Submit Search. Search this site Submit Search. Fitz and the Tantrums provide perfect summer soundtrack. Milwaukee offers an abundance of cultural festivals. Summer TV lineup promises quality. Navigate Left. Navigate Right.
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