[tombert]

Getting off the rails here but I never get to talk about this movie!

When first watching that movie, I really didn't like it right until the last scene, with Michael Douglas and his daughter in rehab, with the line "My name is Robert. And my wife, Barbara and I are here to support our daughter Caroline. And we're here to listen."

It was such a simple yet clever way to end the movie and highlight a central theme in the movie, which is that the way to solve our problems isn't to demonize the people that caused them, but instead to listen to them.

It was weird, because it sort of retroactively made me really like the rest of the movie.

I feel like I'm willing to put up with a lot of the more slow-paced stuff if I know it's going somewhere. If I know that this is building up to an interesting theme, then I don't get bored.

It's now become one of my favorite films.