The movie can be best understood as a film about love. It's much like Love Actually, but all romantic films go up against great challenges: life can be hard and beautiful things can happen; different types of relationship develop in different ways. In Scorsese's case, he wanted to tell a story that involved four people who were living together for over ten years. He never came up with the idea of three person teams (the team had been kept alive by well meaning family members who didn't want them