Why was it always raining?

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hideintheattic-780-617789 — 12 years ago(February 21, 2014 09:04 AM)

What was it with all the rain every time Cusack was outside one of his ex girlfriends apartments?

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leecd — 12 years ago(March 09, 2014 03:26 PM)

It's symbolic. Rob views the world the same way Charlie Brown does. He thinks it's always (metaphorically) raining on him. So we see the literal rain falling on him in almost every outside scene.
Note that the same thing happens to Cusack's character (Lloyd Dobbler) in Say Anything. After Diane breaks up with him, there's a lot of rain in the real world to match the way he feels.

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Nikon11 — 12 years ago(March 11, 2014 08:51 AM)

Yeah, maybe.
As an aside, do you ever notice how only in movies will people sit, walk, or have long conversations, in the rain? In real life, almost everyone does their best to get out of the rain - even if you're already soaked.

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bsantosu — 9 years ago(June 03, 2016 01:55 PM)

Do you ever notice in movies when it's raining you can still see the distant skyline or mountains?

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mmichaels-71660 — 11 years ago(March 09, 2015 05:49 PM)

Because it rains a lot in Chicago.

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drbgoodblues-11682 — 9 years ago(October 13, 2016 09:55 AM)

Rain is often used in films to set the emotional tone of a scene. It brings to mind the great blues standard, "The Sky is Crying" by Elmore James.
"The sky is crying,
Can you see the tears roll down the street.
The sky is crying,
Can you see the tears roll down the street.
I've been looking for my baby
And I've been wondering where can she be."

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Kotter7579 — 9 years ago(November 06, 2016 08:54 AM)

OP no more posting for you! You started one of the most terrible threads in IMDB history.
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