can someone please explain this to me? And why did she just run away when the young man handed her her dropped coins? I don't understand....
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Maybe she thinks these 2 guys is a prankster, they were following her in, looking from behind, and laughing.
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She want return immediately to the school, since Fiamma has breakfast/lunch time, so Miss G. can give the cakes at the moment.
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I thought she was beginning to break down at this point. She has her umbrella up when there is no rain or sun, she is talking to herself and I thought this was the beginning of her crumbling. Her behaviour at this point is beginning to unravel as she then does the very peculiar thing of taking tea and cake into her favourite.
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She was scared of the outside world, she'd lived in the school for so long. Its one of the main themes of the film.
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Antfarm has it spot on, she has rarely left the school in her life, the different social situations were making her anxious, she was out of her comfort zone. She had never been to India etc they were all tales as fiamma catches her out on. This only draws miss g to fiamma more as she wants to be like her.
Even do I am no better than a beast do I not have the right to live?
the whole point is she was afraid of the outside world. I figured she had to repeat her order whilst walking to the shop so she could just say it off hand without coming across as being scared, so technically she was just rehearsing her lines.
I also guessed she had some sort of ocd, so she confines herself to the school where she is perfectly comfortable.
When she places the coins on the counter they're set out perfectly and evenly spaced but when they drop she panics.
She tells the boat man she doesn't care for open water (which means she made up everything about her travels)
Then when she leaves the school all she does it go to a house in the village, not some far off land because she can't leave.
at the end she is seen deciding on the 5 things to place on her nightstand, again showing elements of ocd.
Personally I figured that those obsessive traits were just another example of her institutional syndrome.
As you say, she has lived in that boarding school since she was a child - she is now incapable of living in 'the real world' (without at least some type of cognitive behavioural therapy, which probably wouldn't have been available at that time anyway).
Her inability to leave the village, placing 5 objects on her nightstand, etc... - they are all the result of being deprived of appropriate independence and responsibility. Her confinement has also created extreme self-esteem issues and a tendency to retreat into fantasy.
That's why this film's ending is powerful, I think. We realise that Ms G. is a victim, just as Fiamma and the other girls are. She is likely stuck in that little house for the rest of her life. Meanwhile, Di has escaped. The juxtaposition of contrasts is always interesting to see, especially in cinematic storytelling where the visuals can stress the point.
Miss G never really was outside of the school. We get the hint, when Fiamma already knows the story that Miss G is telling about her 'adventures'. Miss G's adventures were taken from a book that Fiamma happens to have read - she hints Fuzzy about that a scene later.
Also the short scene with the older maid is important, where she says to Miss G that Miss G has been way too long in the school - probably all her life.
When Fiamma comes to the school, Miss G finds the person, she always wanted to be herself. Fiamma actually experienced everything that Miss G only knows from the adventure book, she tells the stories from. That is also the reason, why Miss G adores Fiamma, leading to a deadly obsession.
Also, I don't think, Miss G is gay, she just wanted to 'have' what she couldn't have herself in her youth - therefor a need to seduce Fiamma - to take her, and take something from her, making it her own.
Hope this helps - open for constructive criticism.
As to the young man in the shop = Miss G was probably afraid of the outside world - she only knows the school/cloister.
Spot on.
shareI agree that Miss G was too scared to venture out on her own ..yet for a woman with such a vivid imagination why didn't she?
I mean what got her to the point of being the glamourous swim instructor life instructor ..and yet she remained self imprisoned in that school.
Also she dared to go to that shop to buy the sweet rolls for Fiamma but not want to explore what was beyond that island...
I wondered about the young men and thought perhaps Miss G was simply known as the town nut job and so she had a reputation perhaps...still that made me question why parents would not question the staff of such a staunch Christian boarding schoool?
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agree with everything above, but no one mentioned the scene where miss g got caught reading fiamma's record, and we're told that mss g, like fiamma, has a "scandalous" or troubled past.
i assumed that it must have something to do with what we see in the movie -- her social anxiety, her homosexuality, her desire to live vicariously through others, her ability to molest an adolescent, and her ability to go so far as to murder someone to cover it up.
Miss G's identity is mostly artifice culled from things she's read. Every time we see her with the girls, she's "acting." I don't think Miss G feels glamorous and confident, but she desperately wants others to perceive her that way, so she can be the leader of the clique of girls she has handpicked. We don't even really see Miss G dive, so it's not like she necessarily has a particular talent at that--- her talent is her imagination, her uniqueness in an environment of dullness, all of which really inspires the girls...until Fiamma shows up and will not be impressed.
Fiamma has actually earned her mysterious air, her exoticism from actually being born different, so this startles Miss G and triggers her fixation. Fiamma is the real life version of her fantasy self. She gave her whole lesson about "nothing is impossible to achieve, all you need is to desire it"- but Fiamma calls her out and reveals her hypocrisy when she won't give Miss G the admiration or intimacy she desires. Without that philosophy to teach her students, Miss G has nothing.
She's also obviously got some degree of social anxiety or agoraphobia because she seems completely freaked out when she leaves the school and only manages to do it for Fiamma's sake. If she's lived in the area since childhood she probably would have come to the town on rare occasions, and it's reasonable that she might have gained a vague reputation as the beautiful shut-in, or if she was involved in some kind of scandal as a teenager. Who knows... maybe Miss G was molested by a teacher herself, or maybe as a child she fell in love with a fellow student and got caught and "rehabilitated" into a teacher.
There's the implication that this school has many students who are just kind of dumped there by parents who don't want to deal with them, so if particular teachers are shady, the parents probably wouldn't notice or investigate.
i agree with all you guys said. thats probably the reason even though they have a "diving team" Miss G and the girls never ever competed on any competition. i was wondering about that.
shareMiss G had some kind of serious social anxiety. She was rehearsing what she was going to say in the store because of it: leaving the school to run an errand was a big challenge for her. She has never left the school she attended herself because of her social anxiety. The team never competes because of her social anxiety.
shareNot only was it a type of social anxiety, it was straight up delusion. Miss G wanted to be this traveling, independant, go-getter female which is one big reason why she set her eyes on Fiamma. Fiamma was living this life Miss G envied and always dreamed of; Fiamma's well read, been to various parts of the globe and had lived such a vivid/vast life, and only being a teenager. Miss G is what, in her early 30's and basically hasn't left that small village.
She made up so many stories to these gullible students about her fake grandiose life, that in turn she may actually have started to believe them. It's not until Fiamma comes to the school and starts to blow her whole charade in the end.
Within the confines of the school walls, Miss G is a big shot, confident and nearly narcissistic wanna be role model. Once she goes to the village, on her own, alone and without the safety of her made-up world, she crumbles. The delusion melts away and she is left a fumbling fool in the presence of others who can view her as she really is.. a timid, awkward and introverted 'girl.'