The Rape Scene???


Aside from the dreadful subtitles problem, which is not against the movie per se, what the heck is up with the "rape" scene between Vera and Lombard. I put rape in quotations because while it's not an all-out he-holds-her-down-while-she-screams, but sort of an imposed love-making session; maybe some of you would argue that it's technically rape, but that's not the issue. Anyway, what was the POINT of this scene? It's as pointless as pointing a love story between the two!

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no point at all. because agatha christie rewrote a love story and a happy ending for those 2 for the stage version, some film versions try to light a spark between them, unsuccessfully in this one it seems. but it's completely unnecessary

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I think it was included to show the breakdown of the character's mental states. In the beginning, they're normal, but flawed people. By that point in the film, they'd witnessed multiple murders, been suspected of being murderers, and spent much of every day wondering who was going to kill them and how. Their actions became less human, and more beast-like. Vera has a line when they're by the cliffs, in response to Blore's comment that there's no zoo on the island, so then next line of the rhyme will be impossible. Vera says, "We're the zoo. Last night, we were barely human." So that's my guess on why the scene was included. To hammer the zoo-like actions of the remaining survivors.

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