What’s Eating Gilbert Grape? Friday, October 24, 2008

I like the movie it shows how much Gilbert cared about his younger brother Arnie, which was mentally retarded. And the way he take care of Arnie, it was like Arnie is the only one he has after his father took his life. Arnie is seventeen years old and his birthday is coming up soon, the doctors said when he was dorn that he only will live to teen. Now hi is nearly eighteen.

The scene I remember the most is when arnie climes up gas tank and he doesn’t want to come down, he wants to go higher than the last time. But Gilbert sings a song to him that stops him from claming higher, so he clime down. And promise the sheriff that he is not going to clime up there again. But he doesn’t understand his promise that hi made and wants to clime up the ladder again. The look on Arnies face when Gilbert sang that song was so cute.

I don't think that Gilbert changes when he meets Becky. He cares about Arnie the same way, but sometimes he leaves him at home whit the family and meet Becky. Maybe he is more sloppy then before. Like the time he forgot Arnie in the bathtub a hole night and goes to meet Becky instead. Its wrong what Gilbert dose to Arnie because he dependence on Gilbert to take care of him. And the sisters don’t care about Arnie the way Gilbert do, they don’t take care of Arnie. And it’s too much for one person to do.
Gilbert doses everything to make everybody happy. He sort of forgets himself to take care of everybody else. I think that’s way he dose those things when he meets Becky.

Gilbert said: "Some days you want him to live and some days you don't" I think he meant that some days he is so tired of him and don’t want him do die and some days he loves him and dose everything Arnie wants. Or maybe he means that some days he wants to be more like other people to do want he wants to do whiteout to drag along Arnie everywhere he goes.

Arnie says: “I can go anytime” I think he says it because he maybe knows that he’s supposed to die. And he is like threatens him.

I think the most imported message in this move is that a family always should stay together. I think that the most important thing in life is family. And maybe the messenger in this movie is to show people how it is to have a retarded brother and a hopeless mother.

Amy got a job offer in bakery, and opened her own bakery and started her own family. And didn’t contact her brothers or sister again.
Ellen went to school and took her diploma and works as a dentist, she didn’t get married. And visit Arnie and Gilbert owns then never again.
Gilbert and Becky travel the world, Arnie came along but he did 4 years later.