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What happened to Agatha?

posted 16 years ago by XYZZY123
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So what happened to Agatha after the car race? Did she just suffer a nervous breakdown? She seemed a bit off before she got in the car?

[–] Lynxolita 16 years ago

yes. She had a breakdown so they put her in the psych hospital.

[–] TristanTzara 16 years ago

And then she dies. In the book this is explicitly stated, though I rather liked the way it was hinted at instead of ramed down our throats in the film. Lovely performance too.

[–] Catch-52 16 years ago

Hmm. I must confess I didn't get the "hint" that she dies, but it makes sense.

And I agree, it was a lovely performance.

[–] Barbara2001 16 years ago

I didnt get it either.
My screen went dark at the end, can you tell me what happened to the manuscript. It looked as if young Tom threw it in the fire.

[–] JaneSchmo 15 years ago

How was it hinted? The film seems to never explain what happened to her.

Are we missing something?

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[–] alkamal_r 14 years ago

I didn't immediately assume she died either but according to TristanTzara, it was apparently "ramed down our throats in the film."

We call this the Loom of Fate.

[–] eliand504 14 years ago

No, that is not what TristanTzara said. They stated that Agatha's death was "hinted at instead of ramed down our throats in the film"

Actually, it was a very very subtle hint for me. However, it was a bit more obvious on a second view.

[–] alkamal_r 14 years ago

Ah yes, my mistake, I apologise.

We call this the Loom of Fate.

[–] rosevanhoecke 13 years ago

In the book, Agatha keeps on driving her motor car further and further until she finally crashes the car into a stone monument that was in the middle of some town's centre and she breaks her legs (which is why she stays in bed during the "hospital party". Traumatized by this event, she dreams that she and her friends are in a motor car race in which they keep going round and round and cannot stop. (a metaphor for the absurdity of Bright Young People's lives) Eventually, this leads to her having a nervous breakdown and dying in the end.

[–] henrimaine 8 years ago

As I understood, Agatha was taken into mental hospital by accident (because she jokingly claimed to be a race driver), but somehow she was never released from that hospital. Seemed like she had some serious mental issues, but these issues were not very evident as long as she was partying with her friends, but as soon as she landed in the mental institution, she was labelled as a lunatic. Is that supposed to mean that any of these people could have been labelled that way?

[–] chicago85 8 years ago

They showed the manuscript burning in the fireplace while he waited for his ex girlfriend to return from her night shift at the end. He had taken it from the customs shed after he and others were evacuated at Dunkirk. Apparently the book was no good or out of date by then.

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[–] agentalbert (2320) 6 months ago

I didn't really get that she was crazy. I got she was in a mental hospital, but she didn't seem crazy. She seemed to be perfectly aware of where she was, who was there and what was going on around her. So why was she kept in the mental hospital? And what is the hint that she died? I saw a nurse giving her a shot, but that's the last of it.