why did she sleep with her brother?
I saw this film a while ago, and I never understood why the sister slept with the kid they all thought was her brother. Anyone have an explanation?
shareThis is what I think: She knew her real brother well enough to know that the kid wasn't her true brother. Also, she was attracted to the kid, thats why she slept with him.
shareShe didn't believe it was her brother until the morning after, when he was singing the peepee song. And it still may have been Olivier. It's left open for interpretation because you never see a body in the whole, just a watch.
shareI don't think he was literally her brother. I think that when she did that sort of spell thing with the eggs she caused some sort of transmigration of souls that caused the runaway to have aspects of Olivier's personality. So she perhaps knew on some level that he wasn't her brother. I'm pretty sure there was a body in that hole. By the way: one of the best final shots of any movie I can think of.
shareThat certainly would explain the relevance of her supernatural powers and it would explain how Sebastien knew so much. And maybe that's why Sebastien put the hat on when he met the detective; he knew on some level that it would make the detective like him.
I kinda wish the ending had been MORE ambiguous. It wasn't ambiguous at all regarding whether or not Sebastien was really Olivier. We were told flat out that, physically at least, he was not.
"By the way: one of the best final shots of any movie I can think of."
I think so, too.
And, also by the way, it is one of the very VERY few scenes, in any movie, that stirs in me an almost VISCERAL urge to cry that is as sudden as it is irresistible. (And when I say cry, I don't mean teary eyes and sniffling, with the occasional sigh - no, I mean *bawling*.)