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Wonderful movie but ending was a bit weak Questions and Spoilers

posted 12 years ago by lebellue
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This movie kept me riveted and the acting was amazing. I am a Strathairn fan and McDonnell I like too, although sometimes she overdoes that soft spoken sex appeal a little too much

Anyway the complaint I have is that the ending was a little messy and some ends were not sewn up like a good mystery movie should be....For example

Why did the medicine woman(Kinsley's Mom) take the lace off of the collar of Ellie's green dress?

Why did the granny leave the shoes in Overton's truck? ALthough maybe it was because she forgot them and meant to put them with the green dress in the forest...She could have forgotten them in the rush to get her grandson to the doctor.And why didn't they just let Kinsley's mom take Ellie's stuff with the body. I don't see how there would be an advantage to putting a bloody dress in the woods.

The narrator briefly mentioned a newspaper clipping about 2 woman's bodies being burned unrecognizably. I assume that was when Kinsley's mom ran off the rode. Still I don't see how the car and the 2 women would not have been associated with Ellie's and Kinsley's moms dissappearance

Hadn't Kinsley said that both parents' were in a car accident when he was 5? Something didn't jibe unless I misunderstood something

[–] lousvr 12 years ago

Ok.. Just finish movie... by the way.. IT'S EXCELLENT.. especially for a TV MOVIE !!!!!!!...
OK
1)Why take off collar?.. that one .. don't know..But when I watch this movie again.. I'll take better note of it.
2)Granny didn't leave the shoes in Overton's truck.. she PUT IN the shoes into his truck.. She took Overton's truck tire iron.. rubbed it in Elie's bloody dressed and put the shoes, tire iron etc. in Overton's truck.. Framing him.
3)Putting dress on branch.. They were framing him.. so made it look like a sex crime...
4)Newspaper clipping ab 2 womens bodies (Kinsey's mom & Elie's). Believe they didn't put together the women's dissappearance cause, remember, she crossed a bridge leaving Georgia to Alabama.. different states..Only people who might have known where the folks who kept it all quiet.. still it is abit weak.. Can;t have it all..
That Kinsley didn't put the car accident together?.. Well he was 5yrs old.. didn't know a thing about his parents at all.. Remember .. think it still is but then... 20>40,000 people die from car accidents... also he blocked out alot of what he may have known. He had an asthma attack and believe its made known he forgets alot when they occur.. .
My one question: Why didn't Overton say he was innocent?... Yea, he couldn't have made her pregnent due to his war groin injuries... But.. A man just for that reason, going to let himself be fried?????.. Weak.. Anyone who can answer that?..
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Very good story...

[–] michiruwater 12 years ago

Dora explains why earlier in the movie, though the character herself doesn't realize it, when she's talking about how his letters changed after he was injured in the war. She said it seemed like from that point on it just felt like he was waiting to die, and that she didn't think she would have liked him very much because he was weak. It's implied that, even before finding out his wife was cheating on him, he already wanted to die, so when the state presented him with an opportunity he just kept his mouth shut and took it. Suicide without having to do the job himself.

Granny was framing Overton.

Connecting things across state lines is hard enough NOW. At that time, when one of them happened in a very small town? It never would have happened. All the newspaper clippings we saw took place locally.

[–] PenguinCat 9 years ago

What the other person above said. PLUS maybe since he couldn't have a child this made him feel more of a man? If people believed he could rape a girl? He felt humiliated that his wife had an affair and got pregnant so this made him fell less of a non-man possibly?

[–] FranceGirl 11 years ago

I really liked this movie too. Huge fan of David Strathairn. The two previous posts do a great job answering all of the questions of the original poster except for one...the lace collar. I don't know why the grandmother removed it from the dress and why she kept it. Anyone have any guesses?

[–] kevinwright_email 10 years ago

Ok so the mom, not the grand mother is the one who cut of the lace trim on the dress. I think she was just in shock and was trying to keep it away from the blood. But the biggest question of all that makes absolutely NO sense. What was the deal with the gravestone at the very very end as the credits start to roll. It has dates of 1960 - 1975...who the heck is that supposed to be???? The movie swaps back and forth between the late 90's and late 50's. It's bothering me an I can't figure out who it's supposed to be. Anyone??

[–] GulpFriction 10 years ago

Just watched this on Netflix and was expecting a watchable movie and not much more. However, I thoroughly enjoyed it except for one thing that niggled me all the way through: unless I missed something in the beginning, why did Kinley have such unlimited access to his lately-deceased friend Ray's house? One reviewer said the sheriff was his older brother but I think this is wrong as everywhere Ray is referred to as Kinley's friend from childhood.

It's funny how a thing like this can be on your mind throughout a movie.

[–] artemis1644 9 years ago

I rewatched the end of the movie and didn't see any gravestone. It went straight from a shot of Dora's house to only the credits.

[–] velli10501 9 years ago

Hm Lace is expensive and Edna K. could use it to fashion something with. What I'm still puzzling over is why so many went to such lengths to cover up and let Overton take the rap. I get Kinsley's mm and grandmom doing so and the Older and younger Snow, but the others? Anyhoo. Enjoyed it.

[–] raymondunc 9 years ago

by lebellue» Why did the medicine woman(Kinsley's Mom) take the lace off of the collar of Ellie's green dress?

I think she did it for a couple of reasons. One was the dead girl didn't need it anymore. They were poor and lace was something sold in fancy stores or hand made. I'm thinking they didn't have much money, nor talent when it came to making lace.

The second reason could be she was so nervous this girl had just died, she was doing something with her hands to help get through the shock of the whole situation.

Put those two reasons together and that lace wasn't leaving with that dress.

I'm sure you wanted an answer sooner than this, but I just watched this tonight on Netflix. Yes, made for TV, but an excellent made for TV movie. One of the best I've seen over the years. Very well done.

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[–] paloma54 9 years ago

I also thought the movie was great overall, but the ending really let the film down. It seemed as if they ran out of time and had to wind it all up in a big hurry. The audience is left dangling a bit. However, I would watch David Strathairn read the telephone book, he is such a great great actor. I wish he would get more opportunities. I noticed him first in The Firm, where he has only a small role, but makes something memorable out of it.

[–] pavlova2 8 years ago

Just finished watching this movie for first time. Love David Stratharin. I too wondered why the lace was removed from the dress. Could it be that it was simply taken as a souvenir by Edna Kinley? Remember the woman who kept the dress at her house and didn't return it to the evidence room told Jack Kinley that the lace collar had been carefully cut from the dress(as opposed to it being ripped off in haste)making me think that it was something special to Edna that she wanted to keep and preserve.