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Whodunnit??

posted 19 years ago by luryan
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Did anyone else come away feeling that it was quite possibly Michel who murders Harry's girlfriend, and not Harry at all?

[–] quickzoom 19 years ago

*spoiler*

Absolutely this is a possibility. He goes into the room and gazes at her on the bed and the next time we see her she's dead.

[–] Frankenlotter 19 years ago

Oh yeah, that's quite possible, indeed.

[–] gerrywos 18 years ago

yea i was thinking that.Is it because he is afraid his wife would find out he kissed her,or he is feeeling guilty for kissing her or because Michelle and Harry are the same ,ie Harry the "evil" part of Michelles persona

[–] jack_skellington_lover 17 years ago

I think Michel killed her, too. I think Harry died in the car crash. I wrote a longer explanation of my theory in another thread about this same topic, so I'll just keep this simple.

"A brass unicorn has been catapulted across a London street and impaled an eminent surgeon."

[–] freyagoddess 17 years ago

I don't believe that Michel imagined anything or killed anyone other than Harry. I thought it was obvious that Harry killed Plum because she was starting to grow up & have a mind & desires of her own... like really wanting children.

On the other hand, there are some who think that the whole film was Michels imagination & a metaphorical representation of his mid-life crisis. I think that is an interesting spin, but I think that Harry & Plum were really there & Harry was the sociopath preying on Michel's mid-life crisis.

Basically, I think it's all "real" or it's all metaphor.

[–] almaa31 16 years ago

I don't think he did (assuming you're not a 'Harry is Michel and vice versa theory pro). Simply because Harry has a sick obsession for Michel and would get out the way anything that could prevent him (among other things) finishing the story 'the flying monkeys and develop his writer's talent'. Like many obsessive personalities, he's in awe of him (check the painful full of meaning gazes he gives Michel, how insane he becomes when Michel's brother slags off Michel's teenage poem).

When as for a joke Michel tells him that Plum is a 'big fat slut with a brain the size of a chickpea' (sorry I don't know the exact translation in English), Harry takes it at the first level, not getting the semi joke at all. He's shown off a lot with this beautiful sensual woman up to that point so the fact Michel thinks she's a 'big fat slut with a brain the size of a chickpea', becomes words of Gospel. Indeed does not Harry say while putting Plum's head in the plastic bag 'Anyway you're right she was a big fat slut with a brain the size of a chickpea' ? There's no real need to dissect the film and find in it more subtleties than there really are. I don't think the director intended it that way but that's my opinion.

[–] triciaklly 16 years ago

SPOILERS

Definitely possible. Michel certainly got nervous when Harry went upstairs to wake Plum, much more so than one would expect from him. Of course Harry (being Harry) didn't have a problem with this because he had come to agree with Michel's opinion of her--"dead weight." This also explains why Harry expected Michel to stand aside while he went to murder the family. I think he viewed it as a quid pro quo--you got rid of my dead weight, now I'll get rid of yours.