***SPOILERS***
Megan's way of killing people was with bombs - hence why the title of the film is Blown Away. Yes, she killed her mother. She made her dad out to be the villain when in fact she wanted both of her parents gone so she could get her hands on an inheritance.
IMO, Megan was a sociopath. Sociopaths are very good at mirroring the emotions of normal people but deep down they have no real feeling for anyone but themselves. Getting what she wanted and using and destroying anyone who got in her way was par for the course. As she and Wes were conspiring together all along to lure Rich into murdering her father, Megan was most likely aware of the troubled history between the brothers. So she manipulated that to her advantage and played them against one another.
Did Wes kill Darla? At that point, can we as the viewers along with Rich believe anything Megan said? Megan had no apparent motive to so, Darla was no threat to her and and as far as what was indicated onscreen she knew nothing about the plots. But that doesn't mean that Megan didn't kill Darla. But Wes could have done it. Wes and Rich had serious issues, Wes secretly hated Rich for not doing anything to stop the abuse that their father inflicted on him and their mother. And hated the fact that Rich was never treated the same way by their old man. I don't think Wes had any real emotional attachment to Darla, but I think he was angry that she wanted Rich and not him. As he says after Darla's body was found, "Dad always liked him (Rich) best." Rich was always the favorite; that jealousy and resentment never ended for Wes, although he let Rich for the most part believe that it had. Wes even wanted reassurance from Megan that she loved him and not Rich. Of course, the ultimate irony is that Megan never loved Rich or Wes; she was incapable of love. Even if Rich hadn't survived the car bomb, Megan would have killed Wes eventually, when he was no longer useful to her. She wanted it all for herself; I don't think she would have shared the money with anyone.
Megan shot Wes in a last ditch effort to get Rich to believe that she was somehow the victim in the situation. But Rich had finally seen the truth about her. Then after she shot Wes, Megan tried to pin all the blame on him - "all this was his idea". As there was nothing to indicate that Rich and Wes even knew Megan when her mother died, it's pretty clear that Megan murdered her mother. Some things are open to interpretation as to who beat Megan or if she inflicted those injuries on herself, but as Rich says, "it was all you". Megan was going to kill Rich sooner or later. He was blinded by love, but he finally saw what was right in front of him all along.
Megan was a femme fatale, in pretty much every sense of the word.
reply
share