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>Here is an extract from the L&D script that I didn’t >see the significance of originally, but now think >supports the notion that Paulie needs Tori’s love, in >part, to substitute for a mother’s love. >As Tori gets ready for her first date with Jake, she >and Paulie have an unpleasant verbal exchange. After >Tori leaves, Paulie says to Mary, >“That brightness – eh? – in her eyes. >That brightness, like my fake mother’s, >that brightness when she lies.” >Earlier in the movie, Paulie describes her adoptive >mother, Janet, at the end of the letter to her “blood” >mother. “P.S. Janet…my fake mother…she smiles without >her eyes and her hands are cold.” >Judy Thompson explicitly shows that this connection >between Tori and mothers exists (subconsciously?) in >Paulie’s mind. As her relationship with Tori begins to >unravel, Paulie feels the emotion coming from Tori >shifting from the warmth supplied by a real mother to >the “chilly” tolerance she receives from her adoptive >mother.

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