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Who was the prettiest of the three?


Bernadette, Margaret, or Patricia/Rose

I take a tie between Bernadine and Margaret, with a slight advantage to Bernadine (nice hair).

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For me Bernedette but I could be a bit bias because I have always thought Nora was a very pretty woman.

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Bernadette

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The harlotty one, what was her name? I forget. Very beautiful.

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"Harlotty one" -- the one that got pregnant? That would be Patricia / Rose.

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no, the black haired one.

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You mean the one who flirted with the boys in the playground? -- That one is Bernadette.

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that one

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Bernadette hands down. But all were pretty.

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While she was basically pretty, she had a similar mouth and teeth that reminded us of Jerry Mathers from the old U.S. TV show, "Leave it to Beaver". The slanted teeth in a lower jaw underbite with a fat lower lip. I found it distracting at times.

For the most part, the filmmakers cast actresses that looked like average teen girls. Makes the film more believable and likely is truer to the real women that endured the hardship.

Most young women aren't supermodels. ;)



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That is true! I haven't thought about "The Beave" for a long time. But each were pretty in their own way. Not supermodel pretty but a nice, natural pretty. :)

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Who was the prettiest? I think some may be missing the point of this film.

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Right?! If you're looking for a film where you're supposed to objectify the women, watch literally anything else. That's what the mainstream is all about, and there's also tons of porn out there. This is just so excruciatingly obviously not one of those films. Yeesh.

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Im surprised the OP didn't ask instead who was the hairiest or who had the biggest breasts!

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Seriously! What a ridiculous post and thread.
Just.... why, people?
And "harlotty" one? Are you serious?

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I thought of exactly that scene, and exactly that irony.

Variations on the same diminishment: reducing women to their physical appearances, blind to what's really important.

I imagine people like this driving past a car crash, bloodied bodies in the road, saying, "Hey, that one they were pulling the tarp over had great tits!"

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"Who was the prettiest? I think some may be missing the point of this film."

Seriously. We're watching all these horrific things take place and all some people can think is, gee, I wonder who is the prettiest? Sounds like the nuns in the film who never saw the girls as humans.

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what on earth difference does it make? you do realize that this is a movie and the girls are actresses, right?

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Your point..?

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Doesn't the one who won the contest get any credit for that ?

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Rose was the most conventionally pretty, but all were "plain" in the sense of what one would expect poor, "peasant-ish" Irish girls to look like, and the film did a great job in dressing them for their time and place, which was not exactly a Miss World contest.

For me, Margaret was the most interesting-looking-and behaving of the three. If I were lady-seeking back then, she would have been the one I would first approach because of her strength, direct, frank face, and keen sense of righteousness and compassion. Like it's been said of Meryl Streep, she's not a classic beauty, but rather is extremely interesting and intriguing. A good person to hang out with, and to learn from.

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Bernadette





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