I'm a little confused...how is Danny mentally challenged in the beginning, so much so that he can't even find the doorbell but he grows up and is magically fine? i mean i liked the movie, but how is that possible? people dont just grow out of being mentally challenged?
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this is not mentally challenged. he is a young boy just lost his mother and is going to complete strangers for a holiday dinner. his father asks him to ring the bell so he puts his hand on the swan as a symbol and pointing out that their name is swan. he travels down to where the bell is and rings it. he was just hesitant.
shareI think the "lingering over the doorbell" moment was to benefit a later scene where he unsuspectingly shows up at this same house as "older Danny" and rings the bell...hence, we know where he has landed and can see how it slowly brings a memory back to him.
shareYou're right. The door bell is what brings us back to the house he first entered as a child.
I've been looking for this film since I first discovered a VHS copy in a small surf shop/video store in Shell Beach, California. I had thought the title was "Music from Across the Room"...or "Across the Way". I only picked it up because Jude Law was in it, and I had recently enjoyed Law's performance in "The Talented Mr. Ripley".
Is "Music From Another Room" it out in DVD?