Susan level of commitment to Billy never made sense to me. I mean there were not married or even engaged. Were they?
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Zhan_Zhuang — 16 years ago(September 29, 2009 01:30 AM)
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I would have loved to have seen a final scene with Susan tearfully telling him that she was married
Being the sado-masochistic movie it is that would certainly have been probable. But in all seriousness I think Susan went to Billy to give him an ultimatum: escape or she would have to continue her life without him.
Amzing scene when she visits him in prison though, so tragic and emotive.
"Be still like a mountain and flow like a great river." - Laozi
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MrAgmoore — 16 years ago(October 30, 2009 03:23 PM)
I think that you are misinterpreting the boob-squeeze scene. To me, that scene meant that they were so intimate that he could playfully squeeze her boobs in public.
I used to do stuff like that all the time with my ( now ex ) girlfriend. I would slide my hands along the inside of her thighs, on the subway, pinch her boobs ( while she'd try and fend me off ). We ended up having sex in public theatres and parks.
That kind of boob squeeze is entirely different from when you see teenagers, in the back row of a cinema and the guy stereotypically slides his hand around the girl's shoulders and tries to cop a feel.
Within the context of the movie, I hard a hard time seeing why Susan had the hots for a guy who, at the beginning of the movie, clearly had rocks in his head LOL
Things were kind of different back then, in the 70's - people would get married and stay in unhappy marriages. You have to watch Blow (2001) just to get a feel for the lack of airport security.
One person who read the book mentioned that she was a fictional character -
r-lambert20 — 15 years ago(August 18, 2010 09:10 AM)
Yepit's true, Susan is indeed a fictional character.
The book is quite different from the movie.
Somebody has already pointed out that Billy had relations with a girl named Lillian, who, as i understand it, wrote to him throughout his incarceration.
He visited her after his return to the US, but he said their wild dreams of happiness were never realised in real life, it was just a fanasy in pages, that kept him alive on the inside, and not much happened between them.
Irene Miracle's Character was supposed to introduce a love interest to the story in a way that would be accepted to movie goers.
Things in real life are a little more complicated, and the real love story that kept him going,(albeit, one in letters) wouldn't have made good television, so they invented Susan.