Question about The Rules of Attraction

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1

I’m addressing the movie here, I haven’t read the book so I’m not sure how it applies.

The movie begins at the end of the world party, and once we get to Sean’s segment, he ends up fucking the blond before we jump back in time to the previous fall.

By the end of the movie, we’re back at the end of the world party, but this time Sean leaves alone before talking to the girl. Before this he has flashes of what’s happened to Lauren, Paul, and himself that night as we saw it in the beginning of the movie.

So basically, what just happened?

2

I think you’re confusing two different parties. He sleeps with the blonde at a different party, the one where everybody is (un)dressed for sex, not the one at the beginning/end of the movie.

3

I don’t think so.

At the beginning of the movie, he sleeps with the blond with “dick sucking lips” at the party that he walks into with bruises on his face and after tearing up the purple letters.

He sleeps with Lauren’s roomate at the dress to get screwed party.

I might be horribly confused, but I think I have the parties straight.

4

Yeah, Sean slept with the DSL girl before he left the party and rode on his motorcycle, going into nowhere.

As for the 7th Heaven chick, he slept with her at the Dressed-to-Get-Laid party.

BTW, those parties had dope names.

5

Ah, yes. That’s what I figured, but I was confused, because I thought the scene towards the end of the movie had him walk away from the DSL girl by the pool table. Upon watching it again, I guess he must have been walking towards her as we saw in the beginning.

The motorcycle ride afterwards threw me off somewhat, too.

Thanks.

6

The only question that movie had me asking was: Is Shannon Sossaman the hottest chick on Earth or what? I think we all know the answer is yes :cool:.

7

This was a craptacular movie of I ever saw one. So, so boring. I can’t even go into all the boringness of this movie, but I do have one question.

The girl who had a crush on him was not one of the major players in the movie right? It was some girl we had not even heard of until the very very end of the movie?

8

I was thinking the same thing until the scene where James Van Der Geek and Shannon Sossaman are waking up and going through their daily routine on a split-screen and then they meet in the hall and start talking to each other.

Something about that scene took my breath away and left me completely at the mercy of the rest of the movie. I think I watched it 3 times in the few days I had it rented. Definitely one of my favorite movies of recent years.

9

Correct, unless you have an amazing capacity to notice random people in crowd scenes, the only time you really notice the girl upon the first viewing is when she’s serving Sean his lunch. Even then, I didn’t connect her with the suicide girl until the movie made it clear.

I like it a great deal as well. It’s funny, has some nice cinematography, and a great soundtrack. I’m sold.