i don't think i would see this film since i live in australia and it would take awhile for it to go on dvd but i just want to ask did brewster actually commit the crimes?
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i got the impression that the birds served like witches' familiars, or like manifestations of brewsters id. i strongly recommend you search out this charming magical film.
shareI believe it was Louise(Sally Kellerman's character)
Being Brewster's guardian angel she was everywhere he went, thus creating an illusion that murders were commited by him.
exactly... there was no way for brewster to get those droppings on the victims' heads... you even see louise taking a bath in a fountain... lol... she's a bird.
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He did say that he was only responsible.. so maybe. That's an interesting way of looking at it. That she was a bird. Some sort of a bird girl that is. She sort of cooed like a bird as her response to certain things, plus she had two scars on her back where two wings might have been. Poor Louise..
Louise was supposed to be his guardian angel, but this is all in his head. You see, Brewster's a bit insane. The part with the circus encircling his body at the end points to this. IMO, the events of the entire film were imagined. It's all very existential. Those '70s films, gotta love 'em!
shareOnecoolcat72 are you sure about all that? Because Louise watches that girl under the blanket and they make eye contact after. And it never occurred to me entire scenes were imagined. Also, I don't think the circus ending was "a part" of the film. I think It's Robert Altman's way of doing a cast call, like is MASH he had the man on the speaker announce all the names.
My theory is that Brewster didn't physically harm anyone. I think that Louise did the dirty work, and the bird poop was her trademark. Every person who turned up dead had bird crap on them somewhere, and at every crime scene she is there, or when trouble is near, she is also always there. She protects Brewster so he can concentrate on his work.
Louise interacted with other people, and in some cases even people who didn't die - like the camera store clerk who searched her bag while Brewster stole the Nikon and the photo lab technician, so that could be an argument for her being real rather than imagined. Guardian angel, mama bird, complete nut - whatever she is I think Louise is a real presence in the story rather than some kind of manifested id. Altman's IMAGES from two years later explores more of a subjective reality where the lines are more blurred.
Every time a move is surreal or absurd one of the theories is that everything is imagined or the product of a character's psychosis. I think the story is pretty straightforward (Auberjonois' Lecturer character lays it all out pretty easily) and this, along with Altman's 3 WOMEN, reminds me of what Bunuel was also doing at the same time over in France. Surreal, absurd, satirical allegory. I'm just impressed Altman got the film released as is. Amazing.
I think it was Louise because the cop asked her to follow Brewster, and before he got in a bird shat in his head, and then you never saw him again.
-Act, or your impulse, swallow the bottle, cut a little deeper, put the gun to you chest-
Louise was a symbol in a similar way to Virginia Madsen in A PRAIRIE HOME COMPANION. Overseeing angel.
shareLouise is at the bottom of the huge hill where Abraham Wright finally falls out of his wheelchair dead.
You might say she couldn't have been at the top of the hill as well,
depending on whether she is or was a bird or an angel or whatever.
It's never explicitly explained, and probably shouldn't be.
>>I think it was Louise because the cop asked her to follow Brewster, and before he got in a bird shat in his head, and then you never saw him again.
That was enigmatic but it was hardly a logical narrative. A women wouldn't have the strength to overpower and strangle a man. Brewster, with his body building would. Besides, he confessed to the girl. The Guardian angel distracts the victims with bird poop giving Brewster the opportunity to strike.
I like the The Third Man way, from behind though, Louise walks out on him, out of chronology.
She trained her raven to s h i t on the victims. So Shaft was right in his investigation plan, after all.
If Louise is a guardian angel, or as I like to consider her, a fallen angel, she may indeed have strength far greater than a mortal woman.
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i don't think i would see this film since i live in australia and it would take awhile for it to go on dvd but i just want to ask did brewster actually commit the crimes?
Well, sure. Brewster told her that he was responsible. But that doesn't mean he actually committed the murders. All it means is that he suspects (or perhaps knows) that Louise is the actual killer. But he tolerates her since he still needs her to help him build his wings. Caw!😁
shareIf I heard correctly Suzanne Davis (Shelley Duvall) told Bernard (William Baldwin) that Brewster (Cort) confessed to her.
Well, sure. Brewster told her that he was responsible. But that doesn't mean he actually committed the murders. All it means is that he suspects (or perhaps knows) that Louise is the actual killer. But he tolerates her since he still needs her to help him build his wings. Caw
No, Louise did in order to protect him.
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