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In the end she settled. Belinda walked out rather than giving her advice because she realised her rich person’s problems were nothing compared to her’s. This in turn led Rachel to realise she’s lucky to be privileged…so she chose to compromise her ideals and live with that.
My opinion is that it subjectively symbolises Mrs. paradine’s hold over the lawyer. It’s almost as though he is hypnotised even when he isn’t close to her. It’s one of those very subconsciously suggestive devices that Hitchcock tends to use. That’s how I see it, anyway.
Yes, I have seen that.
Of course, it’s much easier to say that Ben killed her, and that burning greenhouses is a metaphor for that….but I still think there might be something to the surgery angle. Maybe it’s true that you can’t completely change a person’s face, but I do think there is enough similarity between the two women’s faces to suggest it might not take too much work. Also, I do remember reading that burning barns or greenhouses was a term that alluded to plastic surgery in Korean culture….unfortunately I can’t remember where I read this, but it must have been on Reddit, I think.
What I found interesting about the hand scene was the call back to a previous scene in the film. When Samir and Marie are in the car and Samir has his hand on the gearstick…Marie puts her hand over his and grips it as she closes her eyes and maybe drifts off for a second. It’s like an eerie foreshadowing of the final scene. I love these kinds of touches that add to the complexity of the drama.
No. I think you’ve got the wrong person.
Yes. I watched it today. I tend to watch it maybe every third Christmas.
I thought they were perfect castings…particularly Kieron Kulkin…I almost feel like it was him who appeared in Welcome to the dollhouse.
Images (1972)
Horse Girl (2020)
It’s in my top 100.
Where do you come from?
Rear Window is the best voyeuristic movie of all time.
I actually think it’s all a dream from the point where Isabelle is lying in bed trying to sleep, with pills beside her. In the dream she gets a call from Christine to go to the office. When she gets there we still see the shaded pattern from the blinds in her bedroom, and this blind pattern is there scene after scene from then on....with few exceptions.
I think the ending where she finally wakes up to Dani’s corpse is probably symbolic rather than literal. It’s true that the corpse is in a latter stage of near-decay, so unless this is still a nightmare it’s obviously been there for days.
I suppose you could always make the case that De Palma is using the symbolism that goes with apples, but I don’t know if temptation is a particular theme in this film...actually it probably is. There’s also an image of Medusa’s head on the cell wall, so that means snakes!
Very interesting. You could have a point about the plastic surgery. That penultimate scene of Ben applying make up to her lips is quite suggestive. I’ll have to think about this.
Seems like a strange decision by Cameron and the casting production.
I meant Under the Silver Lake.
I am based in the UK and was able to stream it through a service called Mubi, but I’m not sure Mubi is available in The states. There may be some other service though.
It sounded like Oliver to me, too.
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