So the whole point was ......*SPOILER*
.... to make Chazz's wife insane and mental and then take her wealth ?.
I don't know. Maybe I got it wrong.
I think so. Because they could have easily let her die in the opening, during her heart attack episode in the bathroom. But Nicole saving her hinted at a little true depth of feeling by Nicole for Mia. A kind of gentleness hidden under all the rough exterior. And Nicole maybe feeling that there was even a part of her that wanted out from under Guy, literally and figuratively.
Plus, to me, even though it must have a coherent plot line and "point", obviously, "Diabolique" is also very much a film that thrives off its melodrama and pathos, high style, neo-noirish femme fatale Freudian phantasmagoria. I've always loved it for the arias between Nicole and Mia throughout, where we really get the sense the two women love and need each other in an otherwise terribly lonely existence. To call it a lesbian film as many have is simplistic and missing the point. It's two people who come to rely deeply on each other.
Plus I love the cinematography, make-up, costumes, music, and wonderfully dark and cynical and humorous script by Don Roos, which I've read many times.
Great film. Underrated, but mostly because Americans, as a whole, don't get or appreciate melodrama, high style, depth of feeling, and noir. Too abstract for the Western mind.
Without a doubt it is a good noir movie. The genre is not too popular these days but this is a worthy remake. I guess sharon and chazz did not have the courage to attempt murder, so this may well have been an easier alternative.
shareYou don't have to explain a death if it's rule natural. So...they wanted her to die from her well known heart trouble or whatever she had.
sharejadesliver and Hysteria28 -- you 2 have GOT to be kidding.
I guess ya DO learn something new every day. For instance, I never knew that someone (in this case, both of you) could type so well while wearing a strait-jacket.