With the length of rope that the mob used to hang Justine, the impact from the fall would have caused her head to detach from her body.
When executing people by hanging, you have to be careful to have the rope long enough to break the neck during the fall (rather than just strangle the person), but not so long that it decapitates the person.
But it looked so cool.
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If by cool, MJW, you mean chilling and suitably gothic, then I agree with you.
It's still one of my top ten truly horrifying sequences in film (as distinct from simply gory or disgusting), and I don't actually care whether it was anatomically correct or not.
You might very well think that. I couldn't possibly comment.
Why was she hanged? I don't get it
shareThe Monster framed her for William's murder. The townsfolk were so outraged at her supposed act they broke into the jail and delivered their own form of justice before she could have a trial. In the book, Justine actually has a trial but dies anyway. For the movie's purposes, the mob was more dramatic and fit better.
Requiescat in pace, Krystle Papile. I'll always miss you.
That was the most confusing part in the book for me.
I don't mean to impose, but I am the Ocean.
That scene was one of the best because it happened so horrifically fast, and was so shocking.
shareThat scene was one of the best because it happened so fast, and was so shocking. Their helpless fighting their way through the mob, the speed of the "up to the roof and off the roof", was horrific.
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