There's a scene about 8 minutes into the movie where the narrator puts a stack of letters into an outstretched hand. Whose hand is that?
If Tristan died in 1963, the Narrator/One Stab must be ancient. He looks like he's 40 in 1913! So is he talking to a great-nephew of the Ludlow family? Can anyone tell by the watch?
Any help, either fact or theory, would be awesome.
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Humor me with specifics.
I always projected it to be a family member who was trying to understand the specifics of violence, criminality, breakups, war --everything-- that the Ludlows dealt with during that time period.
I saw three dusters...inside the dusters were three men, inside the men were three bullets.
if he's 40 in 1913, he could be 90 in 1963. not that far of a stretch.
"we'll make our own tripods ... ours will have four legs" - Oliver, Scary Movie 4
I must agree. I assumed he was speaking to relatives of his, but they could just as easily have been those of the Ludlows, esp. since he states, early on, "I had lost my sons" (and you see them being driven away) during the so-called "Indian wars", which really meant, 'Let's take their land!".
But if you're a writer, you sometimes put little thought into WHO is narrating the story; you do it for effect. I'm struggling with that now in one of my novels and I wish I had a One Stab to make sense of it all (except for the totally botched timeline! (See other posts).
She deserves her revenge, and we deserve to die.
Presumeably the author, since all the Ludlows are by now hyperdead.
sharethe grand kids or great grand kids might still be alive
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RIGOLETTO: I'm denied that common human right, to weep.
Isabelle 2's parents took care of the children, so because of that and Tristan's involvement with One Stab's spirituality (there's a shot of his son Samuel getting his face painted) I'd assume it's one of Tristan's children's relatives. If they've lived closely with One Stab like Tristan had, they'd know the language.
There's just a possibility that I will kiss a doorknob.
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Does the novella reveal who One Stab is speaking to, or is it purely a film device? In either case, it feels like the director decided to go for One Stab's storytelling as a frame for the film, but then decided just to kill Tristan with a bear and get it over with, without editing out the packet of letters. It also seems the director couldn't quite decide whether the narrative device would be One Stab's storytelling as a frame with ongoing narration, or an epistolary, where the letters tell everything, so it's a disappointing mish-mash of both and neither.
shareNow I'll have to watch it again to look and listen for more details! I never really gave the narration any big thought! I always thought of it as a way to tell the story more completely without having to add another 30 minutes of scenes. The narrator was always talking to me, the viewer, in my mind! Oh well, now I have an excuse to watch out again! Yay!
shareThe following generations. If who they specifically were was important then they would have been named. It's tradition to pass history down through stories. It's also good that he had saved the letters. Tristan may otherwise have been even more of a legend than a person, well another character.
See what happens is,
Kids grow up and have kids,
Then those kids have kids,
then those kids have kids,
then those kids have kids,
etc., etc, etc.
That's the whole reason you're alive today, reading these words. The older generations die off, the middle generations have kids. Then the middle generation becomes the old generation, and their kids become the middle generation, having kids themselves, becoming a new generation.
So are the Ludlows gone? NO. The descendants of the Ludlows are alive. The may or may not bear the last name Ludlow, depending on how many women are born into the family throughout the years. Regardless, they are still desendants who carry the same bloodline.
It's not that freaking complicated, people.