I hate Bernice
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lilgata_16 — 18 years ago(February 28, 2008 04:18 PM)
i understand that her parents were divorcing, but, she was too mean to her mom. when my parents were going through hard times, meaning, she kicked him out of the house, i blamed my mom, supposedly, thats what my mom tells me, i don't remember blaming her, i kinda blocked out those years. but she says that i did, anyway, i didn't treat my mom with that kind of animosity that i remember. i just think bernice was a spoiled brat. since discipline is not allowed anymore. only "time outs" which hardly work.
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bellanita — 17 years ago(February 26, 2009 05:57 AM)
Hello? She was SUPPOSED to be playing a little brat. She blames her mother for the divorce, some children do blame the parent who they are with. I love how so many in these threads about this character think they are psychologists and know how every single child who has gone through their parents divorcing knows how it feels. Even if it happened to you and you reacted one way, it doesn't mean that's the way it always happens.
Mae Whitman was brilliant acting as a little beep in this role as well as yearning for her father and feeling the hurt of his rejection. -
freefall79 — 17 years ago(March 23, 2009 09:16 AM)
re-watching this film, i have to give Mae Whitman kudos for benice. she did play a little brat to good lenghts. and was one of those characters you either hated or loved. personally i hated her character, but she was there to give the audince the representaion of her father. as they are both as self centured individual. she was a constsant reminder of bill temperment.
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am_buglet_82 — 17 years ago(March 29, 2009 10:28 PM)
"I watched this movie last night again and I watched Bernice intently. Yes she is a fantastic actor and I like her for most of the movie, but I just don't understand the animosity that she feels for her mother before the 'father driving away and leaving her screaming' scene. It was interesting that Birdie just let it happen so that Bernice could see what a scoundrel her father was. I thought that was really good."
That's what I thought Birdie was doing! Showing the girl what a scoundrel her father was!
"I know that she is mostly a nice little girl and slightly mistrustful, and protective of her mother (regarding Justin) but I just didn't like those scenes where she hurt Birdie and tried to make out as if it was Birdie's fault. Surely Bernice would know, young as she is, that her father ran off and betrayed her mother with some tart."
I know! She was in the audience when all was revealed.
It made me angry when she said "don't you ruin anything!" before going outside, as if it was her mother's fault her father cheated.
That said, I know she's grievingand I'm certainly not "trying to be a psychologist". I'm just sharing my reaction to this movie, which I saw again for the first time in years yesterday evening.
-Amanda
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jukebox_lucky — 13 years ago(November 28, 2012 01:02 PM)
"She deserved what her father did to her."
That's the least sympathetic remark on this unsympathetic thread. The kid is EIGHT. There is absolutely no way she is emotionally mature enough to handle what's happening. Her parents are divorcing because of infidelity, her father has abandoned her, she's been uprooted from her former life and moved to a totally different town in a totally different state these are things that emotionally cripple children. And you
hate
this little girl because she lashes out? Wow. I hope you never have children.
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lgander41 — 15 years ago(July 18, 2010 11:40 AM)
I wasn't pleased with Bernice either.but HATE??? That is a bit extreme. I would say she is a typical bratty kdbut you don't hate her. You realize she needs a few years to mature and inderstand how things in life work. HATE? No.If you do, I would recommend not having kids,FreeFall. Or maybe just do some growing up yourself.