…and I guess maybe a legal question too…
I don’t care if I’m outing myself as a poor judge of whether a movie is any good or not, I LOVED this movie (saw it on Netflix the other day with my daughter).
And now…
This is the part…
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So that the spoilered stuff…
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I’ll be checking it when I’ve posted the thread, and will edit as necessary, of course.
ANYWAY, after letting me think for half the movie that Valentin is going to die from some brain injury that the doctor tried to treat with medication, it turns out that Maggie is the one who dies, apparently due to a congenital heart condition that the doctor tried to treat with medication.
WHAT WAS THE CONDITION? Or did they just make it up out of the whole cloth, and there isn’t any condition that would lead to the described outcome.
Here’s the legal question: It’s my understanding that in the California family court system, (spoiler again, I guess) the maneuver that Julie attempts of successfully challenging Valentin’s actual paternity of Maggie would NOT have automatically resulted in the judge’s original order being overturned.Am I full of shit in this belief?
I haven’t seen the movie, so I speak for this particular instance, but there are many congenital heart conditions that are treated with medication. It’s certainly possible to someone to die overnight because of one. A former co-worker’s daughter passed away at 14 in her sleep from something similar. A good place to go for info is the American Heart Association.
There are stories of professional athletes who have died from undiagnosed heart problems. From the wiki:
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Or, since I’ve not seen the movie, am I missing something in that question?
What Superdude said. There are absolutely various forms of congenital heart defects that may be best-managed with medication due to not being very severe and which you may yet be unlucky enough to die in your sleep from. (It happened to my dad in his early 50s, though the particular defect in his case was caused by rheumatic fever. That type is one of the possible congenital defects, though.)
Missed the edit window. That first sentence should read “I haven’t seen the movie, so I CAN’T speak for this particular instance…”
I can’t speak to Maggie’s heart ailment. Just popped in to post I’ve seen this film and really liked it. Mostly because I’m a big fan of Eugenio Derbez. What I found interesting about Derbez’s performance was that, while Valentin didn’t speak English, Derbez speaks English fluently.
Also, the actress who played Maggie spoke Spanish with a strong working class accent, but her English, while slightly “Spanish accented”, was “standard American TV” pronunciation. Not sure if I’m making myself clear. Anyway and FWIW…