Talk:The Mirror Has Two Faces

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looks like this page has just been pilfered from imdb —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.42.40.75 (talk) 19:01, 5 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Plot

Doesn't make sense: "...his last girlfriend dumps him after a last one night stand before she gets married..." Sadsaque (talk) 19:52, 7 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

While I was fixing this, I realized there were a lot of other problems with the existing plot summary. It was missing key scene descriptions and some information was factually wrong. Like the line Sadsaque mentioned. Candace has sex with Gregory because her boyfriend is cheating on her; she wanted to get back at him and salve her bruised ego. There is no mention of her getting married.

No doubt, my plot summary is a lot longer. But the original was far too short. I tried to keep any scenes I described to key plot points, or to elements that tied to earlier/later in the film. And I know the quotes are a bit unusual, but I was using them to boil down a characters position in the scene as concisely as possible. For example, there is a lot of dialog in the scene where they almost have sex, but I tried to limit it to the main things he says that hit on the two main plot points established in that scene - that he's deflecting his anger and disappointment he feels for himself at her, but she is so hurt and shaken that she is taking every word he says as the truth. I figured that quote went a long way toward establishing that information about the scene in a reasonably short and simple way. But if anyone has ideas for making those sections more concise, I understand it's a bit heavy and could use some trimming where appropriate.

I also tried to find a way to drop in the fact that, as soon as Rose is finished with her transformation she realizes that it's not worth near as much effort as she's going to have to put in to maintain it, so she's already looking at more sensible ways to satisfy her desire to feel attractive without such extreme effort - like the "If you give me half your burger, I'll give you half my salad" scene with Doris. But while I do think it's plot-relevant, I couldn't find a simple way to input it, without doing a whole paragraph on it. If anyone has suggestions on how to input that in a concise way, please do so. It defines the reality of Rose's choices better than the previous plot-summary, which described her as shy (as if) and worried she is living a "loveless" and "empty" life, turning into a spinster. And there is none of any of that in either the plot of this film, or in Streisand's performance/portrayal. So I think anything that can be done to make clear she's a character with insecurities, but hardly a wall-flower waiting for a handsome man to rescue her, is beneficial to an accurate plot summary. CleverTitania (talk) 09:55, 15 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]