>"Love is the one thing we're capable of perceiving that transcends dimensions of time and space. Maybe we should trust that, even if we can't understand it"??
I don't understand why this is often held up as a valid criticism of the authenticity of the movie. This quote is a character speaking and not the filmmaker. The movie isn't necessarily saying Anne Hathaway's character's reasoning for her actions is any more sound than Matt Damon's character's reasoning. The plot of the movie does not rely on her character's reasoning being right.
> I don't understand why this is often held up as a valid criticism of the authenticity of the movie.
It’s weird the degree of overlap between “people who want absolute realism in their movies” and “people who want everything a character says in a movie to be a reliable description of the reality of the fictional context”, given the inconsistency of those preferences.
Don't get me started on the people who listed among their complaints about The Last Jedi that "Rey's parents are nobodies and that's lame and I don't like it".
Setting aside whether or not that being true would be a good move for the franchise: the film didn't say that's true. It had one character say it to another. In a franchise that has a history of having one character lie to another about exactly this kind of thing. In an entry in that franchise that is explicitly playing with point-of-view and subjective experience of events.
Is that not how a human's perception of love is? Even if you think you're the most logical person in the world you find it hard to explain why you feel so much for a random person. Seems very realistic
I don't understand why this is often held up as a valid criticism of the authenticity of the movie. This quote is a character speaking and not the filmmaker. The movie isn't necessarily saying Anne Hathaway's character's reasoning for her actions is any more sound than Matt Damon's character's reasoning. The plot of the movie does not rely on her character's reasoning being right.