I agree with many of the things you said!
I really would like to add on to your idea about the ending. It was frustrating to see the family unite after so much trauma and damage was done within a fifteen minute time frame. i think that they were afraid that the truth would come out of Zen. They just wanted to appear as the normal, cookie cutter family, and, as they all joined together outside, they appear like a normal family that is brought together by a common subject. They were brought together, after all of the mayhem, by the general consensus of fear that the truth would be told.
I really just wanted to see the family’s interactions once they went back into the house. I love awkwardness.
Obviously this is about as far from “zen” as you can get. At the point where the son finds out he adopted I yelled out loud to myself, “This is bullshit.”
It was quite apparent from Jean’s first appearance that she and Zen were going to have some kind of sexual relationship. Typical cliche, rich lonely woman and attractive young yard boy, or rather, landscaper. More cliches, kid getting beat up at school, “hot blonde” named Candy. Even when Jean looked at the clock I had the strange premonition that she was actually hoping her husband would come home.
The fact that the parents could not specifically say where the son was should have been a red flag. Also the few one liners in this were hilarious. The strange turn of events from Jean cheating with Zen to Richard cheating with Zen’s girlfriend to Andy being gay is totally unexpected. The real kicker is Andy finding out he’s adopted.
The first time I watched this I was extremely annoyed and found this to be incredibly stupid. But when I watched it again it became hilarious. How many things could go wrong for a guy who just went inside for some lemonade? But what I do question is at the end when Richard and Andy went outside as a unified front, and Jean joined them shortly after. It was like they were still the same family they had been before that day, which maybe is entirely true.
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