James
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The first 20 minutes of Monster is a really nice romance, if you end the movie around that point it's quite charming. After that it all goes down hill.
It's not there for the audience to believe Jennifer Lawrence's character has some sort of super power, obviously she doesn't. The only person who needs to believe that it's not a coincidence, and is some sort of magic, is Robert De Niro's character. None of the other characters think the fact Cooper and Lawrence happen to be together when the team wins means anything. She's manipulating De Niro's obsessive belief system in order to get her way.
No one bought into it, because no one (except De Niro's character) was supposed to.
I can't buy into it though, because the script does not make any sense, and they don't earn their happy ending at all. Towards the end of the movie, Lawrence has a shouting scene where she points out that the Philadelphia Eagles win all of their games whenever she and Cooper dance together. That obviously makes for good drama since the masses and even oscar voters bought it, but it's dumb as nails and doesn't make sense. It is basically a superpower, as the Eagles play is in reality not affected at all by whether or not Lawrence and Cooper dance together. You basically have the entire narrative of the story being wholly depending on this superstition, this magic. The movie validates all of the fools who believe in lucky socks and lucky lottery ticket numbers.
It's not there for the audience to believe Jennifer Lawrence's character has some sort of super power, obviously she doesn't. The only person who needs to believe that it's not a coincidence, and is some sort of magic, is Robert De Niro's character. None of the other characters think the fact Cooper and Lawrence happen to be together when the team wins means anything. She's manipulating De Niro's obsessive belief system in order to get her way.
No one bought into it, because no one (except De Niro's character) was supposed to.