At the end of the movie when his wife wanted to give him a hug, why did he turn away? I thought he still loved his wife, and that when he was found innocent, the more he should rejoice with his wife?
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I see. I think the police were sowing discord by distorting reality. They said "you wife passed these photos to the police" instead of saying "the police found these photos in your lab".
Thus, if they had not mentioned this, he would have received her hug.
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I thought the final shot of the film, where Hackman's character looks at both Bellucci and Freeman and then gets up to walk away suggests that he's severed his ties with both of them forever. It's true that the police distorted the role Bellucci played in finding the photos, but it's also true that by the end she was sure, just as Freeman was sure, that Hackman is a rapist and murderer.
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I thought the final shot of the film, where Hackman's character looks at both Bellucci and Freeman and then gets up to walk away suggests that he's severed his ties with both of them forever. It's true that the police distorted the role Bellucci played in finding the photos, but it's also true that by the end she was sure, just as Freeman was sure, that Hackman is a rapist and murderer.
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Good call. I didn't realise that he had been looking at Freeman's character and turning his back on him as well. I don't think it mattered much whether the photos were presented to the police or not, the wife had inflicted unbearable cruelty on her husband for two years. The man had decided he had had enough.
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Their relationship was in tatters to begin with. Before the events in the movie, she thought he was a pedophile, refused to have children with him, and made him sleep in a bedroom down the hall.
At the end of this movie, she believed that he raped and killed two girls. Only because the police stopped a random crazy and found out that HE was the murderer did that exonorate him.
Hug me after that? No way; get lost..
i think the last scene shows that that henry is responsible for the rift in the marriage and not chantel or her supposed affair or rejection of him, chantal isnt a 20 year old anymore...victor sees this in his eyes and is shocked A that hes rejecting such a beautifull woman B that he has a perfect life and hes just pissing it away
shareHe rejects her hug because he realises she hates him so much she believes him guilty of child rape and murder.
Since the Camille affair, he suspects she suspects him of corrupting minors, and knows that she has spoken of her fears and strengthened the police case against him.
He is shattered, devastated, that first his friend and then his wife believe him capable of these acts. He knows that people dislike him for marrying a much younger and very beautiful woman. And that's his position on this island now: cleared, but forever tainted; no wife, no friends, no reputation...
Very good question. My take on it is a more simple one...Hearst is simply drained of all feeling for anything at that moment. He is numb. Stripped of all of his previously held pretensions and hides. Gone are his all-important self absorptions and distortions. Every little thing about his life (including even his toupee') has been opened up and laid bare for all, friends, family, enemies, to see.
He's beyond any emotion, at all.
Where does he go from there ? He can't return to the life he had before. That's been swept away...the life of the ultra-rich, uber-attorney, with the trophy wife.
He's a broken man.
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Ugh, next time you make a post try to think about spoilers in the title...
I agree with most of the others, he was so utterly dissapointed that she could think he was capable of murdering those girls that he didn't think of anything else.
That's why he was so upset and then said that he did it, but as it turns out he hadn't.
Chances are I won't read this again, so don't bother replying/flaming.
Are you serious? He refused her hug because she was disloyal to him and accused him of horrific crimes that were all in her head, stemming from her jealousy.
share^^ yea what Voracious said.
you think about it, imagine your spouse succumbing to the accusation so easily that you may have murdered, and even raped (children no less). the amount of love you have to have for your spouse to turn on him/her so rapidly in 30 seconds, or to believe such a thing right there on the spot, HAS to be low. cus if you had that mass amount of love for your spouse LIKE YOU SHOULD (for all you lust freaks out there), you would've known better, or known him/her better than that. for that kind of crime to be out of his/her character.
i assume after falling for everything she came to believe in, destroyed, dissolved to mere matter, she took a horrible look at how ugly she's been. how much of the "green monster" she was Morgan and Heart were talking about. sheeeeeeeeeeeeit, i kno if i kept blaming another for a hefty crime and they came out innocent, i'd be feeling SOooooooo stupid. and the fact that she's been acting childish since the "niece" incident, jus added to the shame. A GROWN WOMAN TOO??! c'mon now.
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Because she had betrayed him, or at least he believed she had betrayed him.
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