I'm against child abuse but Mary was an absolute monster. She destroyed the careers of two women and (indirectly) broke up a healthy relationship and caused one poor woman to hang herself! I so much wanted to see her slapped silly by the end.
shareI have a hatred for child abuse as well, but I did want to see what happened to that little witch. Mary was indeed a bad seed and the ominous music that played during the scene when her grandmother goes up towards her on the staircase led me to believe that she likely beat the hell out of Mary. It was obvious by how Mary widened her eyes and backed away while her grandmother slowly stalked up the stairs to her. I, personally, would have gone to jail because I would have beat the crap out of that creature. To think that there are children like that in the world disgusts and angers me!
"Help me make the music of the night~"
No no you wouldn't have gone to jail. Considering what Mary did and how it destroyed the lives of three people she deserved EVERYTHING she got. In an earlier of these "These Three" from 1936 (where the lesbian angle was changed to a love triangle) you see Mary get slapped HARD at the end. I would have been happy just to see that in "Children's". I also wondered what her grandmother did to her after probably beating her senseless. That little monster was nothing more than a sociopath. Hopefully she sent her away to an institution for the rest of her life.
shareI was kind of hoping Mary got sent off to a delinquent girls' school.
shareShe also completely destroyed her poor grandmother and it was disappointing not to see some consequences.
share1). She was just a child who didn't really know or understand the consequences of her actions
2). If the film showed her getting severely punished, the criticism of lies and rumors becomes lessened. The movie wanted to convey the sense of injustice. This little girl ruined their lives so easily with a lie, and she just simply got away with it; she gets to go on with her life whereas the victims of her lie must suffer forever
Considering the current social climate, seeing people's lives ruined by simple and blatant lying seems the desired result, and the young lady is a blueprint and heroine for such behavior. Mission accomplished, cue the hurrahs.
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shareSHE looked pretty scared in that last scene when the Grandmother was striding toward with a pretty nasty look on her face
CAN'T tell what happened but I got the impression it was more than a stern talking to