Just revisited this last night after a lot of years. To answer the SexyThang's questions...
1) The Fact That all but paul goes to look around the island LOL...
True. Why does he need to watch the plane? There's obviously no one around to steal it. Doesn't work anyway.
2) The Fact that when they meet ma & pa that they stay there for a while but dont let paul know that they are staying there...
True as well. The screenwriters sort of forget him for a while. I guess it's to set up finding him dead as a shock at the end.
2) continued.....and the end i love this line Jeff: Come on Cynthia were moving out... moving out did they even really move in??
"Move out" or "moving out" is an expression for leaving. Like in a military movie, sometimes they'll say "We're moving out!" when stuck behind enemy fire. Just means it's time to go.
3) When Cynthia & Lynn meet fanny and fanny tells them that shes gonna be 12..
Well, this is a given that she's nuts.
4) When Rob goes off the cliff...
* The whole song "Rob's gonna ride our swing" then he starts crying LOL
Didn't really cry, more like screamed in terror knowing he was going to die.
5)When Lynn gets mad because Pa ridicules her about her smoking and then she's like Fine and slams the door.
* ok first of all who just lights up a smoke in a strangers house with out asking them first if its ok to smoke.
Lynn is a rude beeotch. She's going to do what she wants.
6)When fanny shows cynthia her mummified baby and asks her to give it a kiss..
* who in their right mind would kiss a mummified baby.. thats when i would have been like ok wierd people lets get out of here.
Well, she doesn't attempt to kiss it, she faints. And they're sort of stuck there at the mercy of Ma and Pa.
7) The Whole flash back of Cynthias baby.....
* I understand shes grieving about the death of her baby... but who in their right mind would leave thier baby in the tub by their self.. then in the one scene she tells jeff to hold on and goes check the food on the stove
New mothers can be unknowledgable about these things. It happens.
9) When Cynthia pretends to be one of them... by being just as weird
* In all actuallity I really think she lost it just because shes been through so much.. even though she basically sat through all her friends being killed.
Another given. Which is why the baby thing snaps her out of it and she realizes she has to kill all of them.
10) When Cynthia just starts killing the whole family...
* She started by killing Fanny with the babys bathtub..and continued to kill all of them.. but before pa got killed did you realize that he only seemed to care about fanny not ma not woody not teddy just fanny??? Hmmmm??
Well, Fanny's his "little girl", he may have had more of an attachment to her than the others. The fact that he just sits there and screams is more of a question. Who does he think did it? How? Who just showed up? Figure he'd go storming the woods with his shotgun, or put it together that Cynthia---the new outsider---did it. He just kind of casually sees her playing dead on the bed, w/o checking the body.
11) one of my other favorite scenes is when terry goes scuba diving why would you want to go scuba diving when you are stranded on a strange island... and give up on fixing the plane only after one day LOL i mean seriously those people were just not all there LOL
Nothing better to do, why not scuba? My question is that it looks pretty cold, windy, and cloudy, not ideal climate conditions to get into freezing cold water. The thing with the plane...we don't know Jeff's expertise on fixing planes. Probly just has a basic knowledge of it, and can only do so much. Which prompts them to explore the island for help.
12) i also forgot to mention that one of the strange things was if you remember that pa and ma both said they dont believe in gas and radios and all that technology ok but if they didnt belvie in gas why would they belive in a boat a boat that they kept which also brings up the question they dont work and im sure they never did but how the heck did they get food and clothes and all that stuff like records and what ever ???
Long answer. They obviously have these things around, but are sickos that'll only believe in what they need to or want to at the time. They were b.s.ing Jeff about gas, because when Teddy bombs the speedboat, he takes a gas canister out from inside a hole in some wood.
My assumption is that Ma and Pa lived in "civilization" probably until the kids were born. Then either by boat or plane, discovered the island, built a home there, began their fundamentalist wackjob lifestyle, hiding from the real world. They either boat into the city or someone does fly in raw meat, food, whatever. Can't kill him otherwise they'd starve. Everyone else gets it.
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Waxylocks
18 years ago
What I would really like to know is, Where the heck did the mummified baby come from??? If it really is Fanny's baby, who the heck got her pregnant.
And did anyone think of the possibility that Fanny was once in Cynthia's position. Maybe she's turning 12 because she joined the family 12 years ago...I can't understand how else she could believe she was that age.
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Brandon Hall
18 years ago
Fanny got pregnant to her brother, Teddy. Remember the scene after she's watching Cynthia and Jeff and then she turns around and looks at Teddy and he says something like "Pa would whoop me bloody, like last time!" and she says "I don't want you... I don't need Woody either... I want Jeff!" So, yeah... I'm assuming that Teddy is the dad since there was a "last time."
Also, Fanny believed that she was that age because she had no idea what "age" actually was since she had no contact with the outside world... ever. She just believed everything that Ma and Pa told her.
I know you are, but what am I?
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