*spoilers*
Why didn't anyone seem to 'miss' Magnus??
I know Julia was desperate to avoid him, so she wouldn't likely be concerned by his absence in her life.
But his sister seemed to be around him constantly, even living with him(?).
So why do we never see a scene of his sister Lily calling Julia or rushing to her home?
I'd say this cloud is Cumulo Nimbus.
Didn't he discover America?
Penfold, shush.
Because:
- a caraless/sloppy plot point of the story
or:
-the director didn't want to show us Lily in the story of the film, it was mostly a story about Julia, so it wasn't important for the viewer to have news of Lily calling and wanting to see again her brother and/or Julia
or
-Julia possessed by the evil ghost or Julia herself went nuts after her child's death and killed Magnus in the basement...that's why we never see Julia after Magnus's death wondering where he was.
The only "error" Loncraine does in his sceenplay in my opinion is the basement scene:
it's a great scene in itself but for 3 seconds we see a blonde shape fleeing offscreen who CANNOT BE Julia...so i guess there is REALLY a ghost and so, the story is not 100% perfectly ambiguous until the last shot.
Interestingly enough, i've read that in the film's first cut and screening, we didn't know what happen to Magnus's character...i guess Loncraine didn't know if he had to show or not Magnus's death in the basement...in the book Magnus didn't die, and didn't die in the basement, he escaped from Julia's house.
I imagine these events occurred over a few days only so I don't think Lily would be alarmed.
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