Would anns plan worked???
I wonder if it would have worked out to be a perfect plan..Or would it have eventually came to a halt... remember 1980. no DNA yet..
shareAt the end of the film, it appears Ann's plan might very well have succeeded (minus the nagging detail of Ann's own death, which she didn't want)-- Ginny is holding the knife around a table of corpses when the detective walks in, and she has no alibi for pretty much ANY of the murders, which is just how Ann planned it.
The war is not meant to be won... it is meant to be continuous.
A perfect setup if Anne's motivations made any sense which it didn't.
shareThere is that nagging little detail... ;)
The war is not meant to be won... it is meant to be continuous.
Realistically? No. She would've slipped up somehow because once she got a taste of killing off her problems she would surely do it again to someone else who she thinks wronged her and it would just follow her around for the rest of her life until she's caught. Killers don't have the ability to just stop and never do it again. She would eventually get cocky and sloppy.
The women in this film were selfish. Ann should've had contempt for her father not for Ginny who had no idea. And she should've been pissed at her mother for leaving her behind. She killed most of her friends and for nothing. That was wasted and misplaced anger, anger that she should've had for her parents. Ginny's mom cared too much about being accepted and whether Ginny was included and that caused a whole bunch of problems. Her husband was making good money and provided a good life for his family but that wasn't enough for her. She even tried to shame Ginny into hating him too because she was dissatisfied and that's just wrong. And on top of that she was drunk and decided to drive to Ann's house with her daughter in the car just to prove some point because she was "rich" now? Maggie was angry at Rudi for no apparent reason. This movie just proves that women are just plain catty bitches and mainly to each other. I would hate being a woman.
Good analysis.
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You sounded kind of misogynistic. This movie was directed and written by men :-)
I do agree with you on how misguided Ann's motives were. Ginny's mom's as well.
Even without DNA evidence, it wouldn't have been that hard for Virginia's lawers to show reasonable doubt about her alleged guilt, & to show that Ann was the one who was guilty. It's called "fingerprints". The only murder that could be pinned on Virginia was Ann's, & that was self-defense. Especially Virginia's mom's corpse being dug up would've been the easiest to prove that Ann did that one, & that Virginia didn't, because they could look for the shovel that Ann used & find Ann's fingerprints on it but not Virginia's.
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well said, and i don't think all women are like that, that's just messed up. these women i do agree are messed up. still i wish they would have had a longer ending but oh well. great movie either way.
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