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She was a b!tch (spoilers!)


yes she was. The boy saved their arses, and she was talking about breakfast next to his dead body. No remorse, no compassion, nothing, like he never existed. Clearly, she saw him as being inferior to her all the time.

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Pretty sure that was a point of the director's/writer's.

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Really? In her defense...

She seemed like a person who hid her emotions in general, and kept them inside especially when traumatic things happened... but also that she was mainly talking about mundane things ("breakfast...") to keep her brother from realizing the horror and loss of what had just happened, just like she had told him to keep moving etc. at the beginning and had tried to distract/distance him from their father's death. I'm guessing this was how someone had treated her as a child, trying to distance her from painful things in life, and it had made her distant - but protective of others.

I guess I read the scene differently.

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Exactly!!!!! God

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What a great post, dustypistol

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