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Girl with the hairlip (possible spoiler)


When the killer first sees the girl with the hairlip and gets a good look at her, it is almost as if he were completely enamored with her. I thought for sure he was going to start stalking her and that she would ultimately become a victim, but alas we never see her again. Anyone else think she was a definite goner? I thought that was one of the creepier scenes in the movie.

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I also figured she was a sure victim or would at least figure into the story somehow.

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Good point. I forgot about that scene until I read this (I saw the film the other night). I think he was obsessed with the idea of catching people's ugly sides on film, the sides they were ashamed to reveal to strangers. Fear is one of these things, I think. Well, as Annie Wilkes would say, it's a theory.

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Mark said that that he liked Lorraine's eyes.
He wasn't concerned about her lip

Steve

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I don't think she would have ended up a victim. I think by virtue of her abnormality she fascinated him and occupied his twisted psyche in a way that differed to his victims.


Her disfigurement appears to have a hypnotic effect on him and I think that she might even hold a strange kind of authority over him as a result.




She presents a unique dynamic and is definitely not a potential victim for me.





And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all.

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Totally agree with you simest. He says something about her eyes being, "so full of..." - what I took to be anger. Or hatred. She was a survivor, not a victim.

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He left a note. He left a simple little note that said "I've gone out the window."

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First of all, the term is "harelip". Hare, as in rabbit. Secondly, that term is now considered very offensive. The proper term is "cleft lip." I know, because I have one.

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No offense intended. I just always thought that was the proper term for the condition since that is what I had always remembered it being called. In a million years I never would have picked up on the association of the term with rabbits. Thanks for the post!

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People are offended because they want to be.

I don't love her.. She kicked me in the face!!

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Yeah, it's like she just popped into the thread to educate me and then left without offering anything to the discussion in the thread or about the movie in general. Makes me wonder if she has even seen the movie. Would have been nice if she could have joined the discussion and offered an opinion.

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What I saw was kind of an admiration in his eyes.It was a bummer that we didn't see her again since she could have made more sense and been more effective than Helen. I just couldn't understand Helen and Tom's relationship and kept thinking about that girl.

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