Horrible last parts of the movie

I was thinking the same too. I'd rather my daughter was in prison and being helped. Also, they had money and so could have hired a good lawyer to plead insanity or something, in case they had the death penalty.

Merry turned into some kind of zombie after she ran away from home. What is with the mask she was wearing?

I totally agree!

They didn't have "disassociative disaffective disorders" back then. People were just plain crazy. He was a desperate man and prior to this, everything he touched turned to gold. In the book, the wife actually leaves him for a college professor, Swede remarries and has sons, but he never brings himself to give up on Merry. It's his mortal failing.

The reason she's wearing that mask is because she has turned to Jainism, which is entirely too much for me to explain, other than to say it's similar to what Gandhi practiced. She has become remorseful of her actions, and in her possible mental illness, perhaps feels this will absolve her for what she has done.

So the ending was horrible because the character didn't act like you would? Do you judge all movies based on how closely the characters resemble your personal thoughts and actions? You must not enjoy films a lot.

That being said, the movie was just awful altogether.

I know. He never really tried to save her the entire movie. He was always emotionally unavailable to his family. That's why all that bad stuff happened to him. He only cared about his company and his employees.