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one good scene though

posted 18 years ago by jcjlf
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This movie has elicited many negative comments, but one scene makes the movie worthwhile for me:
In the beginning and in the end we see the young Jonathan looking out his window, while the Carlsson freight-train passes by. The environment of that home and that backyard is depressing, the loniless and boredom can be felt, Jonathan being the only child of an abandoned, ambitious and possesive mother. You may sense the need to escape from this poverty stricken youth... even if one or more murders have to be committed.
The scene evokes very well the melancholy about a lost innocence.

[–] dalmdad 18 years ago

Yes, but it hits you over the head.

[–] joshua_carpino 17 years ago

the end shot is indeed the high point of the film.truly disturbing.

[–] lastknown 17 years ago

How did you hang on till the end?

[–] joshua_carpino 17 years ago

truth be told,i didn't pay much attention till the end!leastways not the first time around.funny how one part of a film can add resonance to the rest of it...put it in perspective,so to speak.

[–] lizardkxng 17 years ago

I just seen the first movie with Robert Wagner, who was a young stud at the time. Boy what a stiff acting performance, this one with Matt was better, I seen it at the show when it fast came out. Not great but better than the first witch is very rare.

[–] chwalker-christopher 16 years ago

I thought the frame scenes of the murderer as a little kid were a bit heavy handed.

A scene I really loved, though, was the brief shot of Sean Young rinsing the dye out of her hair, and the reddish stain swirling down the tub's drain reminding us of the hotel tub we've seen earlier, full of blood and gore from one of the murders.

I hated the chase scene at the end of the picture. Sean Young has a knife in her hand at the beginning of the scene, but makes a remarkably feeble effort to defend herself with it.

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[–] punkdw41 16 years ago

Begining scene. As a child, I was obssessed with Dorry's fall andhead.

Uh oh Kwyjibo on the loose! -Bart simpson

[–] Sburt4-1 16 years ago

I saw this film when I was fourteen. I always remembered Dorry falling and right before that when Matt Dillion said you have no one to blame but yourself. that stayed with me for a while.

[–] punkdw41 16 years ago

I remember the English version's scene.

Dorry:Jonathan...Let me down

Jonathan:In a minute...

J:New shoes?(while grabbing her leggs)

D:Yes I've just got'em. You count let me down now?

J:I'm sorry Dorry

D:What?

J:You only have yourself to blame.

Uh oh Kwyjibo on the loose! -Bart simpson

[–] A_Llama_Drama 12 years ago

Oh my God, me too! My uncle put it on when I was about 6 or 7 and (as a child, I really couldn't handle violence) I spent the rest of the night and the next few weeks utterly traumatised by seeing that man push her. Doesn't he say something about cigarettes, as well? i've not actually watched this movie but that's the one scene that has stuck with me all this time.

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