Clinical analysis?
Sooo Jackie saw her father get shot and had to reenact it??? Kinda like I luv daddy...
Although the trailer tries to treat it as a very light comedy...
no.... she confused the assasination of jfk with her father laving (they both happened at the same time). by the end she had just sort of muddled the 2 events up, and couldnt tell which was which.
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Ya, and I think Marty and Anthony don't know that their mother shot their father. That's why only Jackie's insane. "Children just happen, this one has blue eyes, that one's insane."
shareThe play was written by Wendy MacLeod and she purposely left this aspect of the movie ambiguous. We are not supposed to know for sure whether their father simply left that day or was shot by their mother. Is Jackie telling the truth and dismissed due to her insanity, or is she confused? No one truly knows, not even the actors. Wendy MacLeod told the actors it was up to them to decide what the truth was and incorporate that self-truth into their character. The uncertainty of this really helps to create the atmosphere of insanity that the play and movie both thrive on. Well done.
shareWhat a wonderful explanation to a question i didn't even have to post!
I always wondered if the the surreal ending was on purpose. thank you.
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Thanks for posting this, it helps me understand the movie on a whole new level.
sharemy take on this is that the mother and father were themselves sister and brother, and that the mother is (obviously) insane as well. the film is clearly a loose reflection on edgar allen poe's short story "the fall of the house of usher," in which a brother and sister live in their large house separated from society and both NUTS. why are they insane? their family line, for generations, was inbred. their parents were siblings, and their parents parents were siblings, and so on. being alone in the world and the last two members of the family, they are destined to "mate" to continue the line--this fate drives them insane, combined with faulty genetics from inbreeding. SO.. my theory, and of course it cant be proven and is definitely up for massive debate and easy dismissal, is that jackie and martys parents were also siblings, and that jackie is basically reliving her mothers life. except, of course, for the addition of the whole JFK assassination confusion bit.
shareI hadn't thought of that, but it makes sense. If Mr. and Mrs. Pascal were sister and brother, then Jackie's killing of Marty was a good thing. It finally severs the incestuous/insanity-ridden line of Pascals, at least part of it. But who knows, maybe Jackie gets together with her other brother afterwards.
I'm not so sure that it was a good thing that she killed her brother... I think that, if there were only two possible options, then between the two, Jackie not killing her brother and the two of them instead living together in a consensual incestuous relationship would be the much better option.
That's my opinion, anyway... and of course nowadays we have condoms, the coil and the pill, so they didn't have to have children. :)
i actually think that's a brilliant take on the movie. I watched another movie that as a reflection on poe's "the fall of the house of usher" and was blown away not by the movie, but by the actual story line of the incest and the generations that it followed. Completely blew my mind.
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but remember shes not "insane" shes just spoiled...plus jackie-o was the only one in the family who ever seemed to want to tell the truth about things..
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