Comments on: Funny People – Funny Morals?

By: Sina Fialkowski

Sina Fialkowski — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 02:13:56 +0000

Thanks for the post, it was a good read.

By: Steve's Mom

Steve's Mom — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 19:22:00 +0000

Jay’s view gets my vote, too. Moral ambiguity appears to be a mainstay in the media. Don’t get me started about Mama Mia!

By: Craig Brown (no relation)

Craig Brown (no relation) — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 23:27:13 +0000

I know it’s been said, but:
Rooting for the bad one to get cheated on is morally abhorrent.
Rooting for the bad one to get left is morally peachy.

By: Jenni Brown

Jenni Brown — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 15:17:55 +0000

Jay – way to just lay things straight! I read your comment and thought, “Duh, of course that’s the answer…”

I think the part that stood out to me the most was merely the fact that a movie could lend me to be that divided for most of the length of the film. Like Megan said, in the end George started acting crappy and the writer managed to get everyone out relatively unskathed.

However, the fact that in real life I’d NEVER consider rooting for the cheaters, it was interesting that sitting in the movie chair I couldn’t really decide what to vote for.

Like Dana said, I’m glad this isn’t real people that we know in life! Like I’d mentioned earlier, I suppose this is just good props to the writer for being able to create a story and scene where you can make even the most soild of people re-think what they know to be true.

By: Megan Gorimar

Megan Gorimar — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 04:50:57 +0000

I was rooting for her to leave her husband since he was cheating and kind of mean. I think cheating sucks but I didn’t think much of her doing it since he was doing it already. I figured he’d already destroyed that marriage. BUT George was starting to act a lil shady during the CATS scene so I didn’t think that really seemed like a good option for her and her kids either. I think it ended in a pretty good way.

By: Dana

Dana — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 18:02:02 +0000

This is why I love it’s in a movie and not real life. I wonder if we’d dialogue this option as much if Laura and Clark were our friends…actual people and families that we have a sunday afternoon BBQ with.

By: Sunny Girl

Sunny Girl — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 17:32:07 +0000

What God has joined together, let man not separate . . . I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for marital unfaithfulness, and marries another woman commits adultery (Matthew 19:6, 9)

I agree with the comments posted prior to mine. If the douce bag was just a non-cheating douce bag then I would feel worse about rooting for Sandler. I don’t know what happens in the end cause I haven’t seen the movie, but it sounds like Laura needs to put on her “big girl pants” and do some serious thinking. Biblically speaking, she’s got a legit reason for divorce but she needs to decide what road she wants to travel down and do it. So yeah, my romanticism screams “LAURA JUST PICK GEORGE!!!” But if Clark decided he wanted to change, he apologized profusely, did something amazing to make it up to her like buy her a room full of flowers and really showed his undying love for her… I would be ok with them staying together. In fact, I think it would take an extremely strong woman to stay in the crappy circumstances she’s in and not take the easy way out, so it would be a bit impressive.

Anyways, all this talk reminds me of Grey’s Anatomy season 2 episode 5. You can watch it if you’re bored, although I think this is one you’ve already seen this one.

http://www.cucirca.com/2007/01/17/greys-anatomy-season-2-episode-5-bring-the-pain/

haha, love it!

By: hogstead

hogstead — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 04:50:17 +0000

hmmm well two wrongs don;t make a right. the lady has every right to leave her husband who is a douche bag. but like the other commenter said she needs to break free from her relationship before she moves on. or she could fight for her marriage. but in the end sometimes even the good guy loses out on something that could have been great, and that was a risk he took…

By: J Sherer

J Sherer — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 00:20:50 +0000

I think it all breaks down into a simple formula. Yeah, her husband is a jerk, right. If someone is a jerk and is cheating on you, then you can leave them. To me, if you choose not to leave, you can’t cheat.

Cheating to get back at someone is not an acceptable form of revenge. Leaving is. Getting a new life is. But, you’ve got to break free before you move on.

If you don’t, I’d agrue that your new relationship won’t last. At all.