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Help me understand the ending (spoilers, of course)


So Marion was really a man, but lived her life as a woman?

At the end didn't she say how hard it was to keep this from her mom?

Well surely her mom knew that she gave birth to a son and not a daughter...did I miss something or did I misunderstand something?

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I think as her Mother went more senile, she must have blocked this out and believed the situation that Marion created.

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It isn't explained. I think possibly the mother was so set against men that she overlooked that Marion was male after a time. She may have longed for a daughter and helped Marion with her subterfuge. And to maintain the upper hand accused Marion of entertaining men. The film is called 'Unhinged' so it's dealing with a person or persons with a sick state of mind.

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