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what fell down the stairs and broke?

posted 10 years ago by TV107
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was it an urn?

was it the spinny thing that she uses to decide what is everyone's favorite chocolate?

or???

[–] chefjudy 10 years ago

what broke was the urn carrying her mothers ashes that she carried with her from town to town....

"the greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist"

[–] spookyrat1 10 years ago

Never quite been able to understand why people do that sort of thing, but each to his or her own or urn.

[–] Anaheim92807 10 years ago

I agree with ChefJudy's observation. It wasn't the spinny thing, but a Maya urn containing a box with the ashes of V's mother. The daughter runs down the stairs and starts to scoop up the ashes to put them back into the rectangular box. In a later scene Juliette's character mentions that there are so many other villages in need of being changed, but it will have to be done by someone else as she disperses the ashes in the air over the water. It symbolized the end of the nomadic life that began with her own mother.