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Can somebody please tell me


Why she doesn't talk?
We watched the first 20 mintutes of this in media studies yesterday, and for some reason my media teacher doesn't think we need to see the rest, despute how much everyone enjoyed it.

And is her daughter the result of a rape? Hense the silence?

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Well there is the explanation given-they were in the forest of the Pyrenees and her boyfriend or husband got struck by lightning, resulting in her being shocked so much she never talked again.

Your teacher probably didn't want you to get attached to it and see the sex scenes.

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Flora was making the story up - didnt you notice the animated scene? We learn that she chooses to be mute during the opening, when we hear Ada's "minds" voice narrating...she says that she stopped talking at 6 and nobody knew why. Ada's father attributed it to her strong will claiming that if she had the will to die she would simply stop breathing.

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