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Rose is alive?

posted 15 years ago by Phoenixcasa
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I love this movie its my favorite Monroe movie. A close second being The Seven Year Itch. I saw this movie as a child and really didn't understand it at all. All I knew was that Rose was pretty and I didn't want her character to die. So in my mind she didn't her husband simply strangled her unconscious. This explains why her body moves so much after her death. Which even as a child (although I couldn't distinguish the husband from the lover I thought they were the same man)I noticed this. After just finishing it I think it could go that way. She was under a strong drug and would have appeared in a death like state. I don't think any characters say for certain she was dead except for Mr. Loomis. Further more how did they know that George Loomis was alive Polly who was hysterical and seeing ghosts? Maybe after Rose woke up she told them. I know for this movie she is supposed to be dead and that the ambiguous ending wasn't so prevalent back then but I still like to believe that maybe somehow she made it to Chicago.

[–] BlueGreen 15 years ago

You're forgetting an essential element of film-making here: unless a film is clearly and deliberately based on interpretive ambiguity, what you see is what you get. No more, no less.
And in this film there is no indication of any sort that Rose might have survived.
(If Rose had woken up, we would have been told, believe me. ;))

But since it IS fiction, after all, I suppose you are perfectly entitled to imagine it any way you please.
There's no harm in it. :)

[–] flanger216 14 years ago

WTF? You can claim she went to the moon and dined with Santa Claus if it makes you 'feel better,' but... why?

[–] gearhart 14 years ago

I agree -- there's no ambiguity. No one believed Polly when she told the police that Loomis was still alive. The only reason they were looking for him was because the cops found Rose's body. Remember -- we saw the attendant at the bell tower taking the elevator to the 7th floor. He would have found Rose's body and notified the police. The cop would have remembered Polly saying that Loomis was alive and was going to kill Rose. That's why they were looking for Loomis.

[–] liscarkat (18605) 6 years ago

Rose is unambiguously dead. The symbolism (the lingering shots of the silent bells) tells us that she is being killed, and her husband's subsequent behavior and words confirm that she's dead. They could have shown a doctor checking for her pulse and looking to see if her pupils responded to light, but it was unnecessary.