Porpoise Spit

A question only datalounge can answer. Did Muriel really improve her lot in life by moving from Porpoise Spit to Sydney at the end, or is she really she as much a dead-end prole outsider in Sydney as in Porpoise Spit.

• Yes, She saved herself from becoming her mother.

• You can't stop progress!

• Deidre Chambers!

• Muriel. You're awfullllll!

• No, no, no R4. It's "You're TERRIBLE, Muriel."

  http://youtu.be/yWbE0kTdtaM

• don't come to datalounge for your homework answers OP

• I always wondered if she was chaining herself to Rhonda forever when they went back to Sydney.

• Muriel: But I can change. Nicole: You'll still be you.

• I sucked your husband's CAWK!

• Stick your drink up your ass, Tania! I'd rather swallow razor blades than have a drink with you.

• love that line r10! I read it with Rhonda's voice!

• Love this movie. When Rhonda says to those bitches "I'm not alone. I'm with Muriel" it makes me choke up everytime I watch it. And that South African swimmer was one of the hottest men I have ever seen.

• I was so depressed after one viewing, I never watched it again.

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• I was very much a Muriel when I was young, and believe me, she needed to move away from her family and everything in Porpise Spit. Living with people who tell you you're worthless crushes the spirit, makes you incapable of improving your life or even imagining a better one. Getting away from that awful place allowed her to start building a real life, rather than obsessing over weddings and ABBA. Maybe she'll never have a life that would impress you bitches, but every little thing she achieves on her own is something she can be proud of, because she was told she couldn't do it. Just living away from them is healing, and every job, every raise, every date, every thing she learns to do brings a little bit of happiness and self-respect.

• She was very happy in Sydney in earlier scenes. It's a happy ending: she's left behind Porpoise Spit where she was obviously miserable, and she's dropped the chimera of searching for the perfect wedding/mate to bring her happiness. wtf?! Unless the hero(ine) gets rich and gets hitched at the end, it can't be a happy ending?!?!? [quote]dead-end prole outsider in Sydney Oh, shut up, Lady Evelyn. Nobody cares about your bullshit.

• [quote]And that South African swimmer was one of the hottest men I have ever seen. Yeah, his beauty was almost unearthly.

• [quote]Love this movie. When Rhonda says to those bitches "I'm not alone. I'm with Muriel" it makes me choke up everytime I watch it. MARY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

• [quote] Love this movie. When Rhonda says to those bitches "I'm not alone. I'm with Muriel" it makes me choke up everytime I watch it. Me too, girl. But then again, I *was* Muriel. Seeing that movie was the closest I've ever come to seeing my life on screen. The awkwardness, the wanting to escape, the constructing an alternate me, of sorts....oooh, I have BEEN there.

• Damn, Muriel was alright but her siblings, holy hell they were UGLY as FUCK! The sister played the part of a hugely obese serial killer victim in the movie Feed. It was disgusting.

• preach it r14!

• Does this have anything to do with Dolphin Rape Caves?

• Was his name Chuck or Chook?

• I've always thought living in a Porpoise Spit type environment (small tropical whitewashed cultureless city with a resort tourism based economy) would be incredibly depressing. You're trying to go about your daily life surrounded by tourists, tacky souvenir shops, malls and bad restaurants lining an overdeveloped beachfront. It sounds like a bit like Hell when you really think about it, of course Muriel would want to go back to Sydney.

• His name (or probably nickname) was Chook, which is Australian slang for chicken. At the resort when Rhonda is about to take Tanya down she makes a joke of his name by calling him turkey.

  http://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3Dm1eXSCaYLZc

• I remember going into the theater thinking I was about to see a lighthearted rom-com with an Abba soundtrack...