I kept waiting for the plot, but I never got it.
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FromaBuick8 — 11 years ago(February 21, 2015 12:37 PM)
The movie is beautifully shot and is a nice love story about a cat with no name and how he became a big part of two peoples lives.
Often represented as a misquotation by Ronald Reagan of the words of John Adams (second President of the United States), defending soldiers in the Boston Massacre trials in March 1770. In the course of his speech, he uttered the words:
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the states of facts and evidence.
In his address to the 1988 Republican National Convention, Ronald Reagan introduced a section of his speech with the words:
Before we came to Washington, Americans had just suffered the two worst back-to-back years of inflation in 60 years. Those are the facts, and as John Adams said, Facts are stubborn things.
This paragraph, and the following four paragraphs, finished with Adamss words. However, at the end of the third paragraph, Reagan made a verbal slip, which he immediately corrected. A transcript of the speech reads,
'Facts are stupid things stubborn things, should I say. [Laughter].
However, despite its origin as a slip of the tongue, Facts are stupid things has taken on a life of its own in the world of quotations.
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monkey714 — 11 years ago(March 09, 2015 03:14 PM)
There are a lot of repeated references in the movie. The cat and Varjak's book (Nine Lives). The friend motif - Holly tells Varjak they are friends when she slides into his bed, Varjak's new book is entitled My Friend, Doc says he needs a friend.
I think it's a movie about friendship. Holiday never had a reciprocal friendship, except, maybe, the one with Fred, her brother.
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pturman-929-979676 — 11 years ago(March 19, 2015 07:34 PM)
The point was a girl who wouldn't let anybody love her. She pushed people away & was dooming herself to a terrible, lonely future. Until she finally wised up at the end. Ever hear the song Desperado by the Eagles: You better let somebody love you before it's too late.
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mackjay2 — 10 years ago(April 18, 2015 03:42 PM)
The point was a girl who wouldn't let anybody love her. She pushed people away & was dooming herself to a terrible, lonely future. Until she finally wised up at the end. Ever hear the song Desperado by the Eagles: You better let somebody love you before it's too late.
Agree, but it was about the man Paul as well. He didn't believe in himself, and learned to be independent, taking care of Holly..he and Holly are two sides of the same coin, prostituting themselves needlessly. They find what they need in each other. Sure it's romantic, but a well done film. -
irishm — 10 years ago(May 11, 2015 05:43 AM)
I didn't get the plot or the point either. Very disappointing. I like Hepburn and Peppard a lot, and I really expected to like this movie. Couldn't stand it, and every time I see a picture of her dressed as Holly in the home-decorating department I cringe. Who could look at that unappealing character every day and feel good about it? Hang up a photo of Hepburn in "Roman Holiday"; that would make sense. Maybe reading the book would shed some light on the goings-on in this film, but I disliked the movie so much there's very little chance I'll ever attempt to read the book it was based on.
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ZurichGnome — 10 years ago(June 02, 2015 03:23 AM)
It's quite simple. One cannot love another person until one can love oneself. And one cannot love oneself until one comes to terms with oneself and lets oneself be vulnerable to love.
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duckie_bb — 10 years ago(June 18, 2015 11:48 AM)
Breakfast at Tiffany's was good as a short story (100 pages or less depending on the size of the pages), maybe it could have been made into a good film if they kept true to the story. They changed too much, the film goes nowhere, it is pointless. If they kept the beginning,
that she did commit a crime and unknowingly helped a criminal
, ending etc., and didn't add everything they did e.g.
Holly staying, cat being found and kept (a month later Paul did find cat but by then cat had a new home
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trisul — 10 years ago(July 08, 2015 08:28 AM)
About the dichotomy of the builtin need for material security and the need to love and be loved. When the two coincide, there is no doubt, when they don't there is the need to chose between different sorts of pain and pleasure.
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rs114-1 — 10 years ago(September 07, 2015 10:25 AM)
That it's sometimes difficult for people to find their place in life. George Peppard finally found the courage to break away from Patricia Neal, and then he helped Audrey Hepburn try to break away from her carefree feeling that life is just one surprise after another.
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oknar1977 — 10 years ago(December 31, 2015 11:28 PM)
to me, it works on two levels:
first one is about being lonely, about running away, about being happy, about social anxiety, about falling in love when you don't believe in love anymore, about enjoying life and accepting bad things when they happen..
on second, in cinematic way, this film is different, in time frame - when classic movies were more less black and white regarding the characters. this film differs it shows emotions and it makes it in nice package, you can feel the writer behind this film is professional writer
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chungmusic — 9 years ago(October 28, 2016 05:01 AM)
What's the point of any movie? What's the point in watching any movie? What's the point of art? What's the point of life? Why do life exist in the first place? What's the point in its existence? Go figure.
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gary_w_trott — 9 years ago(December 28, 2016 07:06 PM)
Maybe it is because I see a lot of myself in Hollie that I can also see the plot. BAT's tells the story of a self destructive individual who pushes away or throws away those who truly cares about her, while searching for the next new adventure. She is haughty and says or does hurtful things which she is immediately sorry for but cannot bring herself to change. Then in the end, with her life falling to pieces, she does what she always does and pushes Cat into the cold rainy city streets and out of her life. This time however she realizes that Cat has relied on her the way that she relied upon so many others, and she goes after him to save him, and at the same time herself, from a cruel fate that she nearly condemned both he and herself to. She will care for and protect Cat, while Paul will care for and protect her. That is my opinion of the plot, or I guess it is really the theme which the plot acted out for us.
