I remember at least two scenes I've seen in the past but they weren't in the movie that I just saw on Netflix. In one scene Samuel is seen wandering and looking at more than is shown, and another, Rachel is cleaning the kitchen and talks with Book's sister in the morning. Am I hallucinating or do other people remember these scenes and is there an available version of the movie somewhere that is complete?
shareAre you thinking of the scene where Samuel is wandering around in 30th Street Station, and goes up to a man dressed (to his eye) something like an Amish man, only to turn and we see the man is an Orthodox Jew (reading the Jerusalem Post); Samuel also goes and looks with some concentration at a statue of the Archangel Michael holding the body of a dead soldier, lifting him up from the flames of war (this statue is also known as the Pennsylvania Railroad War Memorial).
All that scene is on the DVD.
However, the other scene you're thinking of, where Rachel helps clean the kitchen and the kids scrap over breakfast, is a deleted scene on the DVD.
Yep those are the scenes I was thinking of but I wasn't watching the DVD I was streaming the movie from Netflix. I felt they added something to the emotional depth and authenticity of the characters and wish they were in the streamed version.
shareHmm, weird. Watching the Netflix streaming version right now and that full scene (Samuel wandering) in the train station is definitely included. Not expecting to see the DVD extra (breakfast) scene, though, because it wasn't in the theatrical release.
shareIt(kitchen scene) had to be shown somewhere on TV at one time. I've never seen this movie on DVD. As for wandering scene I may have not been paying close attention. But I thought they showed LESS of the things he sees in the version on Netflix.
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