I didn't get that part. Did he strangle her when he was pulling on the cord? It did not make sense to me.
Although he should have snapped her neck the minute she started holding him prisoner and blackmailing him.
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Strangulation, yes, helped by her sloppy drunkenness. Tangled awkwardly in the cord, by the time she may have realized she was in trouble, she would have been unable to call out.
That's my take on it.
Bigger budget may have featured the strangulation scene, or maybe it was shot, but poorly.
Which version would have been more suspenseful/shocking?
You pick 'em, either is good, imho. I'd go for the death scene, a la "Dial M," while he's tugging away unknowing.
Though the obvious question is--why didn't he just yank it out of the wall?
You may have missed the point, depending on the interpretation. That wasn't really how Vera died, just as Charlie didnt die by accidentally falling out of the car. The main character killed both of them. The entire film is from his perspective and his own justifcations and fantasies.
The phone cord scene is incredibly unbelievable, because he really did strangle her and was summoning up some way to have strangled her accidentally.
That is an interesting interpretation, I certainly can't blame him for killing Vera, she was one annoying broad, plus she was blackmailing him. If ever I saw a femme fatale with absolutely no redeeming characteristics whatsoever, it would be Vera.
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That is an interesting interpretation, I certainly can't blame him for killing Vera, she was one annoying broad, plus she was blackmailing him. If ever I saw a femme fatale with absolutely no redeeming characteristics whatsoever, it would be Vera.
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She was so loathsome because that's how Roberts viewed her. I think her total "loathsomeness" supports the view that the whole movie is seen through the eyes of a madman. Nobody is so one-dimensionally bad as Vera. In his screwed up mind, Roberts is trying to justify his actions (which were killing Haskell and Vera).
shareThis is an interesting interpretation that your are introducing(for me anyway). Does the book go into his reasons for killing them? Is the reader of the book given any sufficient reasons to question the narrator, as we are when Holden Caulfield and Huck Finn tell us their stories?
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Both Haskel and Vera die in such an absurd and unlikely manner that seem to have been deliberately designed to raise doubt in the viewer as to how much reason do we have to believe the stories Al is telling there...
"facts are stupid things" - Ronald Reagan
"You may have missed the point..."
What an arrogant twat. Somebody makes up his own version of the story, based on nothing that is actually in the movie, then smugly says somebody else missed the point. Supreme jagoff.
I thought it was really well done, and shocked me.
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