Its very clear that sarah janes mom died of a broken heart due to her ungrateful daughter..anyone agrees?
shareI agree. Personally I can't stand the movie for this reason; the saddest part of this movie, even more so than the racism, is how Sarah Jane treated her mother. What a shame.
sharePeople don't die of "broken hearts" The mother was clearly ailing, working all those years for the clueless Lana Turner character. ("I didn't know" says Lana at one point. "Miss Laura, you never ASKED.")
Maybe if the mother had been a little more sensitive to what her daughter was going through...she was a good woman, but pretty clueless herself when it came to her own child. ("I thought I was a good mother, too, Miss Laura, but where is my child now?")
I think, in the sob-inducing hotel room scene toward the end, both mother and daughter realize they've been thoughtless, but too late to mend those fences.
I personally believe that Sarah Jane did not directly kill her mother. However I think that she ignited unhealthful events within her mother's body. I think Sarah's behavior may have triggered cancer because of the extreme stress and disbelief of what was happening. I mean, no one goes out like that unless there is something terribly wrong.
Let's assume she had Sarah Jane in her twenties. 19 years later that means she would have been in her forties. If she had Sarah in her thirties well she would have been in her fifties. She was most certainly not in her sixties. If she was in her forties or fifties she had no business dying so suddenly like she did.
For this reason I am thinking she may have developed cancer and didn't know it or had heart trouble and the stress she was experiencing may have taken her out. Cancer or heart trouble was the culprit in my opinion.
Directly kill her mother -no, indirectly -Sarah Jane is guilty her misery, selfishness weakened her mother's spirit. Ulitmately, she lost her fight against her illness - the mother's energy was wasted on worrying Sarah Jane. Then Sarah Jane found out too late that we don't have all the time in the world. And that our mean words, thoughts can come back to haunt us. Especially when Sarah Jane wished that her mother was not around and out of the way- she got her wish and then realized that karma is a "BITCH"!
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I believe ppl can die of a broken heart. I can't imagine being rejected by someone you love, especially if that person is your own flesh and blood.That must be one of the most horrible feelings ever. I think that Sarah Jane inflicted a lot of stress on her mother, and we all know stress can actually make you physically sick. Whenever I watch this film I have to remind myself that its just a movie, because if I was Sarah Janes mom I would have demanded more respect. The mother just allowed Sarah Jane to continually disrespect her from the time she was a small child.
shareThe woman was sick, she had a disease. That's why her heart broke.
For example, cancer patients can fight, love and pray all they wish, they still die of cancer. Cancer cells don't "know" the heart and soul
I disagree. I have been filled with such grief before, that it hurt to even breathe. You're heart feels heavy, and the will to go on simply isn't there. I believe Annie died of a broken heart. There are elderly people who lose a spouse ,and then die within weeks of each other. There was one couple I read about, who had been married 50 years, and died on the same day. The father following the mother, even though he was healthy for his age.
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I understand grief, but in this case, Annie was already sick. She didn't literally die from grief, it just didn't help matters. If a person who is healthy dies from grief, there is more to it than a broken heart. Unless they had a heart attack, though I know that's not what you mean.
If one loses their will to live and commits suicide, it wasn't by involuntary means.
being rejected by those you love IS the worst feeling ever !!
begging for love and acceptance and then feeling relief when
the parents die.
(I joyfully felt paroled, myself, when my parents both died.)
You joyfully felt paroled, myself, when my parents both died? I won't ask.
However, The mother should had stopped bugging her daughter, which also made the matter more stressful. The mother not taking "no" for an answer was treating Sarah Jane like a child, and only made her resist her mother more. Sarah Jane says that it wasn't the first time she was fired due to her mother coming by her workplace, and that she would keep pursuing other places/jobs when it happened. If Sarah Jane had decided to be a stripper she doesn't need approval from her mother, who already explained herself enough to Sarah Jane.
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I agree with you, Denis. Especially in reference to the sob - inducing hotel farewell scene. Her mother's love for her cannot be touched, no matter what. And even Sarah Jane, who we have seen reject her mother's love throughout the film, cannot help herself when she finally sees and feels and, tragically, accepts her mother's love. She also likely knows that it will be the last time she sees her mother. Sarah Jane was not heartless. She was tormented.
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