The wife didn't actually die. The policeman actually had figured out it was the husband and mistress who were trying to give the wife a heart attack and she just pretends to die so that the policeman can catch them celebrating her death.
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That's pretty much the conclusion I came to too.
It certainty had me guessing until after the film ended. At one point I did suspect that the husband and his mistress was plotting together but as soon as I thought that something happened that made me say to myself, "maybe not".
I very good film that really kept me guessing.
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and what then with her pulse? Michel checked her pulse when she died. How could she fake that?? Please explain.
shareanyone with a brain would agree with the facts that the kid was telling the truth and that the cop would never took the chance to let Christina died.
Of course , some people cant see what is obvious.
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You can fake not having a pulse on the arm, by squeezing a ball under your armpit. Not saying that that's what happened, but it's a possibility.
shareThe wife didn't actually die. The policeman actually had figured out it was the husband and mistress who were trying to give the wife a heart attack and she just pretends to die so that the policeman can catch them celebrating her death.
"What I don't know is why he shows up after Christina's death: is it because he arrives too late or was he actually waiting for them to kill her to have evidence against them?"
Just saw the movie the other night, and I too couldn't figure out a good reason why the retired commissioner "just happened" to be there to catch and arrest the husband and his mistress right in the act. (Not to mention that other time earlier in the movie when the retired commissioner just happened to be in the wife's bedroom at night while she was sleeping; that scene was VERY suspenseful although it was hard to explain how he could have gotten in there at night.)
BTW, I think the ambiguous ending of the movie (with the kid "M. Moiret" saying he got his slingshot back from the dead wife) leans toward an unsettling supernatural-tinged ending, it seems supported by the fact of the husband having checked the wife's pulse, but moreso the condition of the wife's eyes after she "falls dead from fright" in the bathroom.
Did you get a look at those eyes??! Really looked rolled back/sideways and really kind of freaked out. Great piece of acting or special effects (more fake eyeballs).
okay, first of all: the ending IS DEFINITELY AMBIGUOUS, that´s what is intended by the makers. and any search for the truth is actually rubbish. on the other hand: ambiguous endings intend to leave questions and discussions. so i think everybody here is right and it´s just fun to tell what is my or your own truth in this case:
i believe, that the wife is alive. (at least this would be a perfect cliffhanger for a sequel). the ending is a parallel to the whole story. first wife and mistress are the coalition, then husband and mistress are the coalition. in the end the old commissioner and the wife are the coalition, which is fooling husband and mistress. first the husband had fake, rolling eyes, then the wife has them. first the kid has seen the husband, now he has seen the wife. first he is punished, now he ist not: i think the policeman is pitiful and wants to get the wife out.
(sorry for my D-english)
At the end the boy suspected of lying is sure he saw and spoke to her alive, while the man in charge insists her body was taken away. So somewhat ambiguous.
shareYou are right skiop, she didn't die. I just read the Wikipedia plot and it explains the ending perfectly.
shareIt's VERY clear the ending is ambiguous. She could be dead or alive. Personally, it seems more likely she died, not sure why she would pretend to be dead after the two were caught.
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