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- After he reads the final words of the letter, "Love, Liza," Wilson strikes a match found inside the letter and burns the letter.
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After he reads the final words of the letter, "Love, Liza," Wilson strikes a match found inside the letter and burns the letter. The gas fumes in the house ignite his clothes. Wilson peels them off and throws them to the floor, only igniting more fumes on the carpet.
There is a bit of both in the scene when Wilson finally reads Liza's suicide letter. Because of all the pain and self-destructiveness that precedes it, the moment is filled with grace and love. It offers him a new beginning.
Feb 7, 2003 · She left a letter for him, but he has not opened it; her mother, played by Kathy Bates, would like to know what it says, but what can she do to influence this man whose psyche is in meltdown? Wilson gives the sense of never having really grown up.
She urges him to read it — “She left reasons, Will” — but still he cannot do it. Only once does he attempt to explain to her his feelings about the letter: “I loved well!” he cries out in agony.
Jan 20, 2003 · Philip Seymour Hoffman. Love Liza. Interviewed by Alec Cawthorne. Philip Seymour Hoffman has become Hollywood's byword for dysfunction thanks to oddball turns in "Boogie Nights", "Happiness",...
Wilson is attempting to move on from the sudden and inexplicable suicide of his wife. His mother-in-law is there for him, but her sympathies turn quickly. He has an employer that seems to want to help him, and a workmate who wants him for herself.
He's Wilson Joel, whose wife Liza has just committed suicide (by carbonmonoxide poisoning in her car). He can't read the note she left him, can't deal with her sympathetic mother Mary Ann (Bates), can't—in fact—do much of anything except mope. Oh, and huff.
