The End :::SPOILERS:::
How did Jim die? Did Alice kill him? I've been trying to figure this out. Any thoughts?
shareHi. The girl's dad had set up a booby trap with a shotgun and a string. I'm sorry, but I didn't watch the movie all the way through, so I can't tell you why he did it (I assume he had been having trouble with rabbits eating the corn or something.) (I just fast-forwarded through the movie to get the gist and see if it was worth watching . . . I'll tell ya, this one was a bit too weird for me. Torn worms for crying out loud?)
shareThough you concluded it during fast-forwarding, it was correct. In first half of the movie he made this trap, never thinking it would kill a human.
But it would be interesting to know if Alice sent Jim there on purpose. She had a weird relation with him, and when she finally used him (it is not the only movie where Breillat shows that it's not always men using women for sex, as females usually accuse) she didn't need him any more. Maybe this way she avoided all possible consequences - he might have wanted more, maybe a formal relation, or tell someone, even her parents...
And this end is worth comparing to Breillat's Á ma soeur, where a girl has her first intercourse being raped after her family got murdered. Again a strange connection between first intercourse and death; also similar coldness in girl's coping it.
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Teenage years are the life period when humans are (generally) more selfish then ever before or later in their lifetime. Some people indeed become more selfish later, but mostly materialistically, meaning greedy, jealous, envying people etc, however teenagers are selfish emotionally, they are exploring the world still not being able to find their real position in it so they are egocentric, ruthless, careless. They can get passionate for a certain idea that can be even very generous and unselfish, but usually when it doesn't affect their lives too much, and if has been presented to them by someone that they don't have direct emotional contact with (artists, politicians or total strangers will make more effect than parents, teachers or neighbors). In the same time they can be cold or cruel to somebody that is close to them. So, they can cry for kids in Africa, protest against wars or injustice in Vietnam or Iraq, participate in humanitary actions for victims of flood or earthquake, but in the same time torture, humiliate or even hurt their siblings, boy/girlfriends, schoolmates.
Sorry, teenagers if any of you read this, you might be offended, but I've been a teenager and I remember myself and my peers in those years, I've had several teenagers of my own, and I can tell the difference between the way we looked at life at that age and the way we see it now. Just in few years.....