About a Boy

[Guest guest]

The new Hugh Grant film " About a boy " does poke some fun at vegetarians

(like Nottinghill did, by the same people) but I enjoyed it a lot,

especially now as a newly single guy again.

 

But at the end, when the Veggie mum tells her kid its okay to go to

McDonalds, I'm afraid American audiences will think she is giving in and

throwing away her values, but over there McDonalds does serve veggie

burgers, so keep that in mind if you see the flick.

 

 

tony

[Guest guest]

First, I'd really recommend " About a Boy " on any of a number of levels. A great

story, great film. Best thing I've seen so far this year.

 

, Tony Martin <veggiedude@m...> wrote:

> The new Hugh Grant film " About a boy " does poke some fun at vegetarians

> (like Nottinghill did, by the same people) but I enjoyed it a lot,

> especially now as a newly single guy again.

 

I didn't perceive it as poking fun at vegetarians... in fact, I'm confused by

the suggestion it did. I found its portrayal of the characters' vegetarianism

to be very matter of fact. How did you perceive it to be poking fun?

 

SPOILERS BELOW.

 

> But at the end, when the Veggie mum tells her kid its okay to go to

> McDonalds, I'm afraid American audiences will think she is giving in and

> throwing away her values, but over there McDonalds does serve veggie

> burgers, so keep that in mind if you see the flick.

 

heh. But doesn't she specifically suggest a Big Mac? " Couldn't you just

_murder_ a Big Mac? " , wasn't it? I thought it was extremely clear that the point

of the scene was that Fiona has realized she's force-fed her own values to

Marcus and is trying to tell him that it's okay to make his own decisions. And

since he had explicitly questioned her force-feeding him vegetarianism, she

landed on that to communicate it. But since she doesn't have any practice at

letting Marcus make his own decisions, she goes about it in a, for her,

typically heavy-handed fashion, treating his merely having questioned his

vegetarianism as some specific desire to eat meat, when that wasn't really ever

his point.

 

All that said, now that you've pointed it out to me, I can see that another

viewer could walk away from it with the reaction: " Oh, look -- the weirdo Mom is

finally letting her son be a normal kid by giving up weirdo things like

vegetarianism, " which is unfortunate.