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SPOILER: Did Christina....


Did Christina kill Francis' daughter? I can't seem to tie things up at the end of the movie. I know it is left open ended, but I just feel like there must have been some catalyst for her transformation. In the last scene she seems very jealous of Francis' relationship with his daughter, dare I say envious. And as she walks away from the car, she seems to possess a saunter, as if everything is falling into place. I know they said in the film that "they caught the guy who did it" and that's why Francis' was cleared of the charges. But could it be that Christina had some role in the murder, possibly enticing the guy. I really just am having a hard time with the loose pieces at the end. I guess maybe it just is what it is, and there is no explanation for what happened.

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Interesting notion, but no. Christina sees Francis as a father figure, and the rides home are the only times she can really talk to him. She obviously has some domestic issues of her own, probably abuse or a broken family, and I see her as gaining more confidence in herself, her self esteem is better after her rides home with Francis. She would have no reason to kill his daughter. Christina isn't jealous, just isolated and lonely. Francis helps her out of her shell, and wow, then she becomes a stripper! That's a turn around for ya. I don't know all the answers, and I like that some mysteries are left unanswered.


There is no night as deep as this
Inevitable mind's abyss
Where I now dwell with foes alone

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obviously no.

1. they "found the guy who did it" after they implicated francis
2. the point of the last scene is that christina has a terrible family life, and sees francis as a father figure as the previous poster said. Francis after what happens to his daughter decides to throw himself into this role and do what he can for christina.

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so but why did eric say that he knows his daughter?how did her daughter ended up in the fields and did both of them , chrissy and eric knew at that point that she was franciss daughter?

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because they were looking for his daughter, that is the reason many other people were walking the fields.
Seems like it was a kidnapping or something like that.

How did the daughter ended up in the fields? it is not really explained, you can just estimate that the killer left her there, and the people around the city were helping the family to find their daughter.

They knew she was his daughter because they were actively looking for her.

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