When Pete puts off the flame from a candle with his bare hand at the end of the movie. I thought that was a very clever (and visual) way to show Pete's madness. For a long time, psychiatrists believed that schizophrenics were unable to feel any physical pain.
shareNice post but I don't think Pete was schizophrenic. Psychotic yes.
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I thought it was a nice touch too. Quietly frightening.
sharePutting out a flame with fingers is common and not painful if you do it quickly. No symbolism.He put out the light because he imagined he was in the past and Jeannie's husband was arriving outside, and he didn't want him to find them together. In fact that's why he
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***smothers her.
I'm watching it now. He puts it out with his palm not fingers, and not that quickly.
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