Meg


Did anyone get the idea that Meg was abused by her father?

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That thought occurred to me too. Perhaps that's why the grandfather was so protective of her, more so than the other two.

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I thought so too.

Jessica Lange was and is a beautiful woman, but I saw Holly Hunter play Meg on Broadway and thought Hunter was better in the role. She made Meg seem more vulnerable.

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That came through, at least for me, subtly though quite clear. When Meg is on the porch talking at night with Babe, and mention that Daddy was such a BASTARD, she had tears in her eyes and this awful hurt look--she also mentions his "white teeth" at least twice in the movie, and something about the way she says it, implies a dark, dark reason--a good, lookin' guy with his white, white teeth and black hair, abusing his pretty, older daughter, maybe the mama catches him, he takes off and abandons them....mama sits on the porch night after night, silent, smoking cigarette after cigarette, then hangs herself in the basement..the whole picture makes a lot of sense.

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Yes, it's obvious by her reaction to his photo, and the conversation on the porch, also her reaction to Babe being abused by her husband

"People who live within their means suffer from a lack of imagination" Oscar Wilde

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Yes, it's obvious by her reaction to his photo, and the conversation on the porch, also her reaction to Babe being abused by her husband

"People who live within their means suffer from a lack of imagination" Oscar Wilde

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