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I am probably really dumb. But I still can't figure out what happened at the end. The police come; there is a seance where Kim Stanley's character crys a lot; and then alone with her husband she crys a lot again.
Did she confess during during the seance? She says alot of things, but I couldn't understand her.
I 've watched this several times and I still can't understand the ending. So please tell me.
Blaine in Seattle
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Thanks.
There seems to be a verbal cat and mouse game between her and the police, but I cannot make out the dialogue.
Blaine in Seattle
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Even though I have watched the movie several times on two different DVD players, I cannot understand the dialogue in that key scene. I can the rest of the movie. And generally I can understand the weird way the Brits speak English {ha-ha}in other movies. And ironically Kim Stanley was American.
Blaine in Seattle
I'm surprised Kim Stanley was American, because she speaks "British" very well! And I agree with you about the key dialogue being hard to follow, though I had no trouble understanding the film because of the direction and the facial expressions.
shareCome on! Miss Stanley's 'Briddish' accent was very ropey. Sometimes it just about passed, but most of the time it was obvious she was American. Dickie Attenborough's accent was spot on - just that little bit lower-middle class, and I liked the way the kidnapped girl's father had a sort of nouveau-riche, working class boy made good sound to it when he got upset. Just the sort of man who would live in Barnet and have a chauffeur driven 'Roller'!
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The police had already found the girl where Billy had left her in the woods - the Scout leader saw Billy run past. So following up on this, the police revisited the house, and the confession was told in the seance scene.
~Give us some lyrics, you famous lyricist~
I find all of Stanley's dialog in the three seance scenes to be hard to hear. Her voice is quieter in those scenes, and the film doesn't really help you make up for that in any way. It makes you work for all those words. I actually *love* that aspect of the film. The whole film you're trying to piece together what it is within and between these two characters that make their relationship tick, and you never really fully understand it. You know certain things happened in their past, but why exactly did they respond to those things such that they've reached the point they have?
It's a terriically frustrating experience -- in a great way. And you know those seances, particularly the last one, are of great importance, they're key to getting into Myra's head. And you (or at least I) have to work so hard at getting everything. After at least three viewings, I still haven't gotten it all. Well, done, Mr. Forbes, you brilliant bastard!!!
Matthew
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yeah I was confused by the ending
I thought the husband have the kidnapped girl poison.
No, it was a sleep drug? So that his "psychic" wife would find the girl where he left her in the woods?
The cops somehow "knew" she was so whacko she would reveal herself in a self indiced seance (insane manic state?)
and... the little girl was safe?
I was able to hear something like. "Billy Killed Her (over and over) and "Aurthur(something???)"
This movie really needs close captioning.
..I'll get my cape...