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One more thread about the ''house in the country''

posted 9 years ago by gressos
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OK,I know it's been mentioned before and it's puzzling,but it's a numerous time I've watched the film and I can't say for sure.Was this house that Elsa took Babe to,the same house we see during the flashbacks?I always had a tendency to the ''yes'' side but there are a lot of people who doubt.Both houses looked similar,anyway.If it 's not the same house,it must have some symbolic meaning.The development of this scene certainly makes us think that he recognizes the landscape and the house,as the car approaches.That's why he suspiciously looks at location first,and then,Elsa.

[–] Cavitcat 9 years ago

The farmhouse looks like the one in "JOE" where suzan sarandon gets her azz shot off.

[–] PeterMarkoff 9 years ago

Eh? Babe (Hoffman) aparently didn't know this house, while flashbacks from past are aparently his home where is father killed himself not being able to bear humiliation.

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[–] gressos 8 years ago

Thank you for your reply.This film is full of loose ends,anyway,as film critics have pointed out (I'd like to read the original novel and see how this issue is treated as well as others)but at least,the feeling I got from the first time is that the location is not unfamiliar to Babe and that maybe there could be a connection between the Nazis and the abandoned(after father's death) family house,because of the nature of Doc's position.Everybody seems to know something about the past of father Levy-Janeway implies it when first talking to Babe,even Szell (''your father was weak").Who knows?