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Early Version of Cache?


Haneke's Cache that is. I've seen the movie twice now and there's something unsettling about the last scene. I don't think that Doctor Vorzet (the old one married to the young pretty woman) wrote all (or all but one of the letters as the ending implies). The story of the morphine is the key here and it's only mentioned in passing a few times. Patient 13 was in pain and needed morphine but Marie Corbin was stealing the morphine to assuage Doctor Vorzet's addiction - patient 13 then suicides - something that most likely would not have happened if he had been on morphine. While we don't see a letter referencing this, it's quite likely a letter was sent to patient 13's mother referring to this whole morphine business, so she kills Dr. Vorzet not because she thinks he sent the letter to her son but because she received a letter saying that he prevented morphine from being given to her son. A subtle difference but what it does now is that we don't know who sent _all_ the letters. It appears to me that _everyone_ was getting in on the action of sending letters - not only that but since there is no conclusion, the letters are going to keep appearing after the movie ends. P.S. nice acting by a 15 year old! 9/10

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So you are comparing this to Cache on the basis of never finding out who is making the threats?

'Cause honestly other than that, I see no comparison. Cache had to be one of the more dissappointing movies I've ever seen and a huge waste of time. Le Corbeau, intricately plotted and a masterful who-dunnit is on another plane entirely.

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I've seen porno's with more going for them than "Cache"

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I wouldn't doubt Haneke was somewhat inspired by this film, seeing as The White Ribbon also seems to have been.

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The White Ribbon reminded me a lot of Le corbeau. Not that I think the former was an imitation--it's a brilliant film in its own right--but the influence is there.

"The night was sultry."

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Cache was far from a waste of time. But you take away from the film what you put it. The first time I saw it, I didn't dislike it quite as much as you, but I wasn't overwhelmed. But as re-visited, and tried different mindsets, I found the film really begin to grow on me, and I started to catch the little intricacies that make it brilliant.

Not saying Le Corbeau isn't great either. I just don't see why both can't be great.


Jack White killed a man with his bare hands.... While singing and playing guitar.

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