During the memory draining sequence, it shows a party. Everyone's dressed up. Zarkov cries out, "Hilda! Hilda!" They playfully throw her into the pool in her fancy cocktail dress. And then they watch her as she just drowns. She was literally right there, not 10 feet away, and she drowns.
WTF?
I want the doctor to take your picture so I can look at you from inside as well.
I always wondered about that scene. Makes no sense at all.
shareRemember it's Zarkov's memory of the event, not necessarily how it happened, mixed in with his feelings of guilt, sorrow and helplessness about it.
Everything will be OK in the end, if it aint OK,it aint the end.
Still seems pretty f'n stupid.
I want the doctor to take your picture so I can look at you from inside as well.
How? As glenmusher stated, it's Zarkov's memory of the event. So in reality, when his wife drowned, no one just stood around watching. How it actually happened, we don't know. Perhaps she cracked her head when she was thrown in. Perhaps she wasn't literally thrown in, but accidently pushed and no one noticed until it was too late.
The idea is that it's not truly his memory, just his emotional reaction of the memory. Most importantly, the feeling that it was his fault.