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Story of Incest Nothing more Nothing less. (Spoilers)...

posted 9 years ago by Mr_Anarchist
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Edgar Hart no doubt is the main corrupter of all three women....as a result all three are too ashamed to show affection that could remotely hint that they are related and in doing so they manage to convince themselves that they are strangers...its just like if you lie about something too many times you end up believing it yourself....but at times of peril the blood affection buried deep inside, subconsciously emerges....Examples...reaction of both Willie and Millie as they see Pinky drowning...reaction of Pinky as she sees her mother (Millie) with Edgar....reaction of Millie as she finds out that Willie is about to give birth....and the first thing Millie says at the birth without even checking that the baby is alive or not that "Its a boy" inadvertently a subconscious check to make sure that Edgar has no more women to abuse......

Pinky behavior from start to end holds the key as the initial adoration for Millie a subconscious effort to please her mother...the transition in Pinky behavior after she comes out of coma is again a subconscious attempt at hostility for her mother for failing at various moral aspects and not to be the icon of perfection that she carved out....

The end reflects that after the death of the corrupter things can more or less go back to normalcy.

[–] eyesmalloy 9 years ago

I just watched the movie for the first time yesterday and I think you have a very interesting theory here. I'll admit that the ending stumped me a little, but as stated in the IMDb summary, the three women eventually settled into a family unit with each playing the role they most desired.

During the film, Edgar never struck me as malicious, just an older man who liked to mess around with younger women. After reading your post however, it made sense to me that Edgar could easily have corrupted all three women. The boy delivering Coke to the bar at the end mentions an "accident" involving a gun that befell Edgar and it's immediately obvious that one or all of the women killed him.

So maybe you're right. Maybe he was the film's true villain, hiding discreetly in the shadow of a seemingly unimportant role. The film is certainly open to interpretation, but I think you hit the nail on the head with your last sentence:

The end reflects that after the death of the corrupter things can more or less go back to normalcy.

[–] ElxDiablo 8 years ago

Some of the initial clues are subtle...

* Edgar pocketing the money from the bar and drinking "on the house", while his hard-working, heavily pregnant wife looks on (Oh the "death stare" he got!)

* The fact that his wife is toiling away at the apartment complex weeding the garden so that the place remains a desirable place to live, but Edgar is nowhere to be seen (for now).

Some are more obvious...

* More than one affair while married.

* Abusing his position as an owner of an apartment complex to illegally enter and rummage through people's fridges for beer (then make lewd comments when caught!).

* Neglect his pregnant wife while she is in labor.

Whatever Edgar was intended to represent, he was certainly a smooth-talking, self-centered, amoral (at best) piece of crap, who was absolutely holding back Willie, and doing S.F.A. to keep the businesses running. If anything he hindered them.

Actually, the only person you felt comfortable watching shoot a gun was Willie, leading me to suspect that she was the one who shot him...something which she had done symbolically by shooting a painting of a snake and then a target of man (right in the throat and head).

After this, Willie gets her voice back.

Oh, and for the record, I grew up with a mum who had a "death stare" (employed when we really, really messed up) and we knew exactly what it meant.

Once I saw it on Willie, I knew there was more to the story and I should keep a closer eye on Edgar, and the entire Willie-Edgar situation.

Willie said more with her eyes than with her mouth.

[–] kmags84 7 years ago

Ooooh, those Death Stares are BRUTAL. You are 100% correct. My mother is 5ft tall, about 100lbs soaking wet and I'm still petrified of her at 32 years old. She's capable of making me feel like that little kid who didn't clean his room. That's on display in this film. No doubt about it

[–] rascal67 7 years ago

It is a possibility that Pinky may have been molested by her father, as the dream Pinky has when she has amnesia may subtly allude to this, but I think what you have written about the over all context of these characters, is way over-thinking the film and quite frankly pretentious nonsense.

These are 3 Women who are connected to each other on a deeper level, in that they are in a sense fringe dwellers of a society, that they can't quite fit into or belong. They need each other to become their own family unit by the end. It is a film about loneliness and connection first and foremost. All 3 Women are separate entities and I DO NOT see them as bloodline related. Edgar's behavior, especially in leaving Willie alone in labor, is the final and ultimate catalyst for uniting them all together.

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