Board Thread:Movie discussion/@comment-13359-20151024120151/@comment-13359-20151024154012

No, no, no. The way the flow of the conversation happens is like this:

1. Karen calls Claire.

2. She asks about whether or not the kids are with her.

3. When Claire confirms they are not, Karen begins to cry.

4. Claire, concerned, asks what's wrong, and here is the point at which Karen should reveal the divorce to her, but instead she just gives a vague response about it how it's supposed to be a family weekend.

5. Consequently, Claire sees no immediate reason to do what her sister wants.

In short, Karen wants her sister to spend time with her nephews. She knows her sister is a workaholic and often inattentive towards her family, and so far Claire isn't proving her wrong. I'm not saying Karen should use the divorce to guilt Claire into doing what she wants, merely that revealing it would stress the reason why it's so important to her that Claire for once spend some time with the boys.

This isn't rocket science. Karen is upset by the divorce and wants Claire to spend time with the kids. Claire won't. Karen attempts to stress how important it is to her that she do so, but does so without bringing up the reason, and so Claire is free to dismiss the outburst as being of no consequence (just Karen being emotional) and doesn't do what Karen wants. And yet Karen is annoyed at Claire.

It definitely, definitely should've come up.