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Spoiler: question concerning the little girl


i simply dont understand how the little girl died. one secound he was holding her upstairs so the policeman wouldnt notice, then the thunderstorm, and then she is one the floor dead.. how can she go from being asleep to lay on the floor like that? what killed her?

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I think that that's sort of the point. It's not clear if he smothered her accidentally with the blanket and didn't realize it until later (when he comes out he claims she was "sleeping") or if she simply died. She was in a box for... at least several days. Then they kept her there, gave her some water and I assume food, but she really needed to be taken to a hospital. It's entirely possible she simply didn't get the medical attention she needed.

Though honestly, my immediate reaction was that he had killed her and either didn't realize or convinced himself that she was sleeping.

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If you think about it, it's unlikely that she would just fall asleep in the middle of that struggle. Remember, she was kicking frantically and trying to scream. Even if she did pass out on her own, it was probably because she hadn't had medical attention. Either way, the husband and wife were in the wrong. Not that I didn't sympathize with them.

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And that's why I said "convinced himself" that she was just sleeping. It was part of the delusion. People's brains sometimes just fill in their own answers when something it too much to take or deal with. He "decided" she was asleep - because the truth would have been too much for him to deal with.

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Or maybe she was already dead when they found her in the trunk.

Maybe she was a ghost the entire time.

There is no definite answer as to when or how she died,
that's one of the charm points of this film, IMO.

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I'm convinced he accidentally killed her and then lied to his wife about it. It just doesn't make sense that a little girl who moments earlier had been thrashing about would all of a sudden just go to sleep. I figure he killed her, set her down on the floor and decided he'd just figure out what to do later. Good movie by the way.

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