There is something in the film which maybe someone could help to clear up for me. At the very end of the film, the Donald Pleasence character yells out for Agnes, who is not his wife, but a name which was mentioned once ("Have you heard from Agnes?", asks the portly gentleman who comes to visit. "No.", tersely replies D.P.) and not again that I noticed.
Have I missed something?
Agnes was George's former wife, whom he evidently dumped (as so many men do) to be with the much younger Teresa. His screaming Agnes' name seemed to suggest his regret at having left her, coupled with the realization that he was no longer the potent, vital young man that Teresa needed (and that could have effectively stood up to Dickie), but rather a meek, testosterone-depleted middle-aged man.
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Get over Polanski's past. Seriously.
Because we're never told, there's no real way for the audience to know who Agnes is.
could easily have clobbered Dickie in the head. Why he didn't, of course, was simply to keep this stupid story going.
There's a point where George, shovel in hand and knocking down the roosts in the chicken house, could easily have clobbered Dickie in the head. Why he didn't, of course, was simply to keep this stupid story going.
Talk about watching a movie and missing the whole point. George was a weak and ineffectual coward who just didn't have it in him to bash Dickie over the head with a shovel. Even when George shoots Dickie towards the end, he's shocked at his own actions, as though he doesn't believe that he really did it at all.Exactly. George is a meek, little man & he's bitten off more than he could chew: Left his old wife Agnes & took a young gorgeous wife, Theresa, to go live in a castle. But, he's not the heroic type and Theresa cheats on him & he knows it. Dickie even calls George a cuckold. In the end, Theresa leaves him (after 11 months of marriage), he breaks down & calls out "Agnes" because he screwed up his life.
Since "Agnes" is mentioned only in passing, and when George shouts out her name at the end, we're left to speculate who she is/was.
The most likely explanation is that she was George's loyal ex-wife who treated him kindly and was a good spouse and friend. Perhaps she died, perhaps she left him in frustration, or perhaps he left her for the trophy bimbo Teresa.
Alternatively, she could have been some woman in George's life who he wishes he had married, because ultimately Teresa was the cause of his mental collapse and downfall.