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Miss Minchin didn't recognize Captain Crewe?

posted 9 years ago by T4me7
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I wonder about this everytime I see the movie. Towards the end when the electricity comes back on in Mr. Randolph's house and they find Sara trying to remind her father who she is, Miss Minchin looks right at Captain Crewe but still allows the police to drag Sara away. Does she not recognize him, or is this a continuation of her jealousy of Sara? Has she come to hate this child so much that she'd prefer to see her taken away by the police than taken away by her family? Thoughts everyone?

[–] YodasDaughter 9 years ago

I think that she was a bitch there, she hates her so she did not want them togehter

[–] JoanTheVampireSlayer 9 years ago

She definitely recognized him. She lied because she was a bitch who took joy in watching an orphaned child suffer. When she broke the news to Sara that her father had "died" she showed zero concern for the pain Sara was suffering. The second she heard of the father's alleged death she immediately seized that as the opportunity to make Sara a servant girl and taunt her that she no longer had any family left. Her jealousy and irrational resentment of Sara was more important to her than a little girl being reunited with her father whom everyone thought was dead.

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[–] SataiDelen 9 years ago

DUH, she COMPLETELY recognized him, but took advantage of his having no memory and wanted to exact "revenge" on Sarah for always thinking she was a princess, and because she was a jealous, bitter shrew who was unable to take any joy from life because of her own childhood and the implication that her own father did not value daughters, and was likely very harsh with Minchen when he bothered to pay attention to her at all. I have a feeling the only reason her sister was more friendly and "soft" was because she was the younger sister and the brunt of the father's anger/intolerance was probably heaped on Minchen instead, which is what often happens in abusive families.

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[–] aliholly9389 8 years ago

I don't think she did. Imagine hearing someone had died and then you see them later. "That's impossible..." Would probably be my reaction too.

[–] ricky_says_hi 7 years ago

Well she seemed like she did recognise him, as there's a moment where she looks as if she's coming up with a plan before she says "this child has no father". Presumably she thought it was best that the girl she had been mistreating for ages didn't get reunited with someone who could give her the necessary comeuppance.

[–] seal412 (335) 5 years ago

That makes a lot of sense.

[–] HelpMeRhonda (1155) 2 months ago

She recognized her because that was the whole point of his picture being in the locket, which she’d looked at a few scenes earlier. She was a psycho hose beast. Bless her heart.