Top 10 Moments from YOU HURT MY FEELINGS

 

You hurt my feelings…by telling me the truth.
True relationships are based on honesty. If you can’t be honest with someone, then what is the point in being in a relationship with them if you have to hide behind a facade?

But can you always be truthful to your friend or partner or family member? Being honest comes with the string which signifies being hurtful too.

We’ve been taught to be polite at all times and although honesty is the best policy, it also comes with the price of hurting the person you love.

YOU HURT MY FEELINGS is an interesting take on relationships and the truth couples hide from themselves that at that point seems small and insignificant, only for it to actually have troublesome consequences.

Here are the TOP 10 Moments from YOU HURT MY FEELINGS that makes this movie an interesting watch.

1) Meet Don

Don is a therapist who is clearly not doing a very good job. He keeps mixing up cases, and watches couples fight on his couch. He is bored and perhaps going through a mid-life crisis as he considers getting some work done on his face because his patients have been wondering if he is tired.

2) Meet Beth

Beth is a published author and teaches a class creative writing. The four students in her class are unaware of her published work though and she takes that well in her stride. Her agent isn’t happy with her latest fiction book and keeps comparing that to her memoir which barely did well.
Beth is shown to be taken aback by this but not hurt. After all, her husband, Don, has been encouraging her and calling her a good writer.

3) Meet Elliot

Don and Beth’s twenty-three year old son, Eliot, works in a weed store. Beth isn’t too happy about that and asks him to find something that will utilize his potential. Eliot is a writer as well but he isn’t able to finish the play he is working on.

4) Meet Beth’s Family

Beth’s family consists of her sister Sarah, her brother-in-law Mark, and her mother Georgia. Sarah and Mark are pretty close to the couple while Georgia is the one who donates her clothes to the stall in the church that Sarah and Beth run for the homeless. Most often than not, she prefers getting her clothes back even though Beth reminds her she needs to learn to give them away.

5) Meet Jonathan and Carolyn

The couple have been seeing Don for two years now and have spent close to $33,000 on therapy but they are sure Don has been unable to help them. Jonathan keeps complaining that he and Carolyn are still in disagreement. Eventually, Don tells them that maybe no therapist can help them and they should consider a divorce. This brings the couple into agreement as both of them do not want a divorce.

6) The Truth

Beth is hanging out with Sarah when the two decide to head into the store, Paragon, where Sarah knows her husband Mark will be, buying socks. Beth creeps up behind Don and Mark and overhears her husband talking about how bad Beth’s book is.
Beth is shocked her husband does not like her book and walks away crying.

7) The Cold Shoulder

Rather than confront her husband, she immediately distances herself from him. She sleeps on the sofa, doesn’t talk to him properly, scoffs at him, and is annoyed with him all the time. Poor Don cannot understand why his wife is icing him out.

8) The Overprotective Mother

Beth is at Eliot’s store when two men enter and hold everyone at gunpoint. Beth pretty much lays on top of Eliot to protect him. After they leave Eliot realizes that his mother truly cares for him although prior to this, he couldn’t understand why his parents are together and is annoyed with them for pressurizing him where writing is concerned.

He believes his parents will lie to him regarding his writing just to spare his feelings.
Beth takes a moment to think about it because that is what Don has been doing to her. In the end, Eliot manages to complete his play and hands over a copy each to his parents to read.

We see them reading on their bed but we don’t get to learn whether or not they truly liked it.

9) The Confrontation

Tired of Don “pretending” to be supportive, Beth confronts him regarding his comment about her writing when he thought she wasn’t listening. Don is sheepish but comes out with the truth and assures her that she is not her book and that is not why he loves her.

He then asks Beth if she has never lied to him. She brings out the leaf earrings he gets her on every anniversary and he laughs. He admits he thought Beth would like only leaf earrings. She tells him she only ever loved that one design and didn’t need all of the others. Don tells her that he hates the V-neck sweaters she gifts him because he doesn’t have a cleavage to show.

On the other side, Mark tells Sarah he is no longer in love with acting. She tells him that he is talented though. However, she agrees that he shouldn’t be doing things he doesn’t love.

10) The Happy Ending

Mark has finally gotten his play ready and he is well-appreciated for it. He has actual fans who want to take selfies with him. He is finally doing what he loves.

Eliot has finished his play and is finally invited to his parents’ anniversary dinner. Don gifts Beth the same earrings since last year. Beth gives him the same V-Neck sweater that even Eliot doesn’t want. It has become their inside joke now and they have moved on from their little fight.

Beth has found a new agent and gotten her book published which has received good reviews. Don has gone ahead and done the procedure he wanted for his face.

Beth isn’t too keen on how his face looks but is still supportive. This time she is the one lying to him so as not to hurt his feelings.