Really confused - help


Ok, i am really confused, we had to watch this video in French class and i dont know what happened so i would really appreciate it if people could help me out.

Ok first question :

What did the priest do that he was ashamed of and the reporter was going to expose him for ? if it was something bad how come he was allowed to be allowed to be a priest in the fisrt place ?

Second Question :

If Gaele didnt kill the baby then why was the mother so horrible to her and didnt let her stay in the house after she took the rapp for her ?

Third Question :

Who killed the reporter ? i assume it was the prest (joachin i think)but im not sure because we never find out ?!?!?!

Fourth Question :

Why did Sarah suddendly go crazy and kill the mother nun woman ? what was that all about, i thought she liked her and then she suddenly went mad and bludgened her to death. What? a reason please?

Fifth Question:

What was Sarah talking about saying that god sent her to kill him and not her ? Was Gaele supposed to kill the priest and Sarah was saying she was to do it ? Or was Sarah just crazy?

Sixth Question:

Why did the sister decide to throw the other one off the building? i thought they had this eternal bond and had there own language and loved each other and so she killed her just to save the priest guy ? that doesnt make sense! so whats the real reason?

Seventh Question :

Did the nuns know that Sarah was crazy and were they trying to protect her or what? im not really sure, cos the old woman says that she always favoured Sarah, why? And why did she end up in a nunery in the first place

Eigth Question :

Why was the priest guy kicked out of the church? are they not allowed to have realtionships or something ?

If anyone could help that would be great. As you can see i have tried to guess the answers but i just dont think that they are right somehow. Sorry about my spelling also. Thanks :)

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* What did the priest do that he was ashamed of and the reporter was going to expose him for? If it was something bad how come he was allowed to be allowed to be a priest in the fisrt place?

= Not personal exposure; if the story got out, Gaelle would have been extradited back to France - the reporter was going to ruin their life together. That's why he talked about giving them time.

* If Gaelle didn't kill the baby then why was the mother so horrible to her and didn't let her stay in the house after she took the rap for her?

= She was crazy. In all the publicity (and her craziness) she came to think Gaelle really did to it.

* Who killed the reporter? I assume it was the prest (Joachin i think) but I'm not sure because we never find out?!?!?!

= No, it was certainly one of the girls. If you remember, the reporter is unalarmed at whoever entered, and, while looking at the pictures of Gaelle, tells the person that they were photogenic. Now, between Gaelle and Sarah - I actually think it was Sarah. The person didn't come in until the reporter said 'come in' in Portuguese; of the girls, only Sarah spoke that. But, how on earth Sarah a) knew about the reporter b) knew where he was, I don't know. But it does make the ending cleaner; the sole killer is dead (IMO), Joachim ends up with his love, and she's not a killer.

* Why did Sarah suddendly go crazy and kill the mother nun woman? What was that all about, I thought she liked her and then she suddenly went mad and bludgened her to death. What? A reason please?

= No, the mother liked /her/. She stifled Sarah, and Sarah had gone crazy and gotten a taste for blood. I don't know really, I can't come up with any reason other than that.

* What was Sarah talking about saying that God sent her to kill him and not her? Was Gaelle supposed to kill the priest and Sarah was saying she was to do it? Or was Sarah just crazy?

= It wasn't /to kill/, she just wanted him. She was all protected & stifled, he shows up, takes an interest in & shows kindness to her, and she wanted him.

* Why did the sister decide to throw the other one off the building? I thought they had this eternal bond and had there own language and loved each other and so she killed her just to save the priest guy? That doesnt make sense! So what's the real reason?

= Beats me. Weird sisters. It gives the movie a cleaner ending if Sarah did it but came off worse. (If we leave all the killing to Sarah, then she's crazy, plus she has more motive).

* Did the nuns know that Sarah was crazy and were they trying to protect her or what? I'm not really sure, cos the old woman says that she always favoured Sarah, why? And why did she end up in a nunery in the first place.

= Well the girls' mother is crazy & there's been a disturbing event - maybe the girls' mother & Sarah both are too much for the father, and maybe Sarah needs that nunley environment. Yes, sure, the Mother Superior was trying to protect her, and 'keep' her to herself maybe.

* Why was the priest guy kicked out of the church? Are they not allowed to have relationships or something?

= No, certainly not.

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yea, that pretty much sums it up. except for 2 things.

i think the priest didnt want the story out being that he was breaking the law by helping gaelle break parole by leaving the country. that and his rep.

and the reason i think sarah threw gaelle off the tower with her is because she wanted to give gaelle a clean slate. noone would be able to know who was dead, and who was alive. which is what she ended up doing.

then again this is all my little conclusions, and whut do i know? this is one of them movies where everyone can come up with thier own conclusions. much like the movie "swimming pool". i guess frenchies like that kinda stuff.

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Thanks, that cleared a lot of things up for me!

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I think I have some interesting answers:

*What did the priest do that he was ashamed of and the reporter was going to expose him for? If it was something bad how come he was allowed to be allowed to be a priest in the fisrt place?

If you notice in the priests (Depardieu) thoughts you see images of him killing a guy by bashing his head into the ground in his much younger days. No reason as to why just cause maybe they were fighting or something. Plus, abducting Gaelle to a foreign country knowing full well she is on parole and parolees are not to leave the country or even there genearl area.

*If Gaelle didn't kill the baby then why was the mother so horrible to her and didn't let her stay in the house after she took the rap for her?

The answer was on point. The initial shock of the mother killing the child was so much pressure she went ballistic and couldn't tell which way was up. Therefore, out of guilt, believed Gaelle was the culprit.


* Who killed the reporter? I assume it was the prest (Joachin i think) but I'm not sure because we never find out?!?!?!

This is tricky because all you see is a hand grabbing the CD Rom. And if you look closely, it is the same hand that grabs the bloody one at the end. So it was Gaelle. She's the only other one who knew the address of the reporters hotel.

* Why did Sarah suddendly go crazy and kill the mother nun woman? What was that all about, I thought she liked her and then she suddenly went mad and bludgened her to death. What? A reason please?

I dont think Sarah went crazy, I think that seeing her sister put everything in perspective and she finally saw that the nun was intentionally keeping her away from her sister.

* What was Sarah talking about saying that God sent her to kill him and not her? Was Gaelle supposed to kill the priest and Sarah was saying she was to do it? Or was Sarah just crazy?

Again killing wasn't the option. What she was saying was he was meant for her because god showed it to her.

* Why did the sister decide to throw the other one off the building? I thought they had this eternal bond and had there own language and loved each other and so she killed her just to save the priest guy? That doesnt make sense! So what's the real reason?

More than weird sister stuff it mainly deals with twins. They share the same soul. If you go back to the scene where the Professor and priest converse about twins it's mentioned that they may share the same soul. So they became one. (Again this is how I saw it.)

* Did the nuns know that Sarah was crazy and were they trying to protect her or what? I'm not really sure, cos the old woman says that she always favoured Sarah, why? And why did she end up in a nunery in the first place.

Again, I really don't believe Sarah was crazy. If anything it's the mother's fault. After Gaelle took the rap for the mum, the mother completely loses her head and and Sarah obviously couldn't be catered for so the nuns probably took care of her after the incident. They indoctrined her so much till she almost forgot about her sister. But, their closeness for each other was stronger than anyone's attempt at separating them. She still found a way back to the sister.

* Why was the priest guy kicked out of the church? Are they not allowed to have relationships or something?

First, he was suspended. Then from all the illegalities that went on, they excommunicated him totally. As far as relationships go, normally Diocesan piests are not allowed to marry or whatever but, Depardieu's character was a Jesuit priest. They cannot have relationships but if you are already married then it's up to you. "Men who apply for admission into the Jesuit novitiate must be free to make that election. Married life implies a commitment that would limit a man's freedom to enter religious life." - The Jesuit Vocation Office of the Maryland and New York Provinces website.











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This is tricky because all you see is a hand grabbing the CD Rom. And if you look closely, it is the same hand that grabs the bloody one at the end. So it was Gaelle. She's the only other one who knew the address of the reporters hotel.


I don't think that really works.
The hand seems as light skinned as Gaelle's in the scene you mention, but I don't think you should base yourself of that. In the gemini scene, their complex is pretty much the same... (as it's the same actress) and in the death scene, there's just somebody else for the hand, so a different hand than the one we saw before.


As to whom I think did it? Honestly I don't know.
It was made to make us think at first it was the Doc, but if it was him they would show it so you know quickly it is not...
I'd bet on Sarah, but only because when Gaelle gets in the church you see her kind of not sure about anything, which does not seem to work with the one-hit-kill on the reporter, for that you'd need a precise hit that I don't think Gaelle could have achieved in that state (of course that could be the reason why she's in that state...).

There's also the idea that they're just one person, so Sarah could have killed him but with the reporter's body, or she could have known his location through their special link (if not on the phone..).

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I think that you all got it wrong, remember there is a scene where sarah & gaelle is talking in their "twin language" and one of them states that not even mother can tell us apart. I think that Gaelle is really sarah but took the rap and went to jail as Gaelle (why do I think this?) if you remember when "Gaelle" was coming down the stairs and asked her father where is mother, he says Gaelle?, but its never proven that it was really her, if their mother who is the homemaker and probably is around them more can't tell them apart then its less likely that the dad can but back to your questions

What did the priest do that he was ashamed of and the reporter was going to expose him for ? if it was something bad how come he was allowed to be allowed to be a priest in the fisrt place ? I don't think it really has to do with his past where we see flashbacks of him killing someone when he was young but more to do with him being in love and the fact that he illegally got Gaelle out of the country and the exposure would sabotage the possibility of them having a future together.

If Gaele didnt kill the baby then why was the mother so horrible to her and didnt let her stay in the house after she took the rapp for her ? its of two possibilities, either she totally forgot what happen and really believes her daughter did the crime or deep down she does remember and doesn't want her around to remind her what a coward she was to let het teen daughter take the rap for her.

Who killed the reporter ? i assume it was the prest (joachin i think)but im not sure because we never find out ?!?!?! I don't think it was the priest or either of the sisters, I feel it's either someone hired by the mother superior or the mother superior herself. remember if she could hire someone to rough up the priest, she could be capable of killing the reporter or having him killed. what would she have to lose you may say, scandal being brought to the church or maybe its her obsession with "sarah" or control over sarah (remeber she went through all this trouble to erase sarah's past

Why did Sarah suddendly go crazy and kill the mother nun woman ? what was that all about, i thought she liked her and then she suddenly went mad and bludgened her to death. What? a reason please? this too is of two possibilities, if she indeed go crazy, either it could be genetic (Mom's wasn't all there) or the guilt of living with these secrets all these years combine that with the sheltered life as a nun and being seperated from her twin (soulmate). we have no concrete proof that she was the one who killed the mother superior but if it was her , remember the MS was the one keeping her away from the truth

What was Sarah talking about saying that god sent her to kill him and not her ? Was Gaele supposed to kill the priest and Sarah was saying she was to do it ? Or was Sarah just crazy?
She said that god sent him to her nothing about killing her, I guess she took it as the priest taking a genuine interest in her, her as a person, not someone trying to supposedly protect her. and with him came the truth or recollecting the past and what happened), and as they say, the truth shall set you free. no one was supposed to kill the priest

Why did the sister decide to throw the other one off the building? i thought they had this eternal bond and had there own language and loved each other and so she killed her just to save the priest guy ? that doesnt make sense! so whats the real reason?

I think it was her atoning for the past, in her keeping her silence, her sister lost her life by being put in jail, but she lost out too. "Gaelle" was truly the stronger one, she managed or was trying to manage a life without her sister with the priest where it looked like "sarah" even in their childhood flashbacks was the more dependent one and possibly wouldn't be able to live with out her, so her killing herself was to set both free, I don't think she was trying to kill her sister but trying to create a new beginning for her.

Did the nuns know that Sarah was crazy and were they trying to protect her or what? im not really sure, cos the old woman says that she always favoured Sarah, why? And why did she end up in a nunery in the first place

I don't think it has anything with her being or not being crazy but more about vows of the church, I feel that Gaelle & Sarah pact of silence was further protected by the rules of the church and the confidentiality of confession. probably sometime during her stay she exposed all of the past but they probably felt what's done is done so they protected her and this getting out probably would cause scandal to the church

Why was the priest guy kicked out of the church? are they not allowed to have realtionships or something ?
he was kicked out because he disobeyed their rules, remember first they suspended him because he forged signatures so he can get access to sarah and her files after they removed her from the hospital, after this incident they told him to back off and to stay away and he didn't. Hello he is a priest, since when were they allowed relations, only in the cases where they decide to if they were already married and even with that it limits how high they can go in the priesthood

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My take is that the mum and Sarah are so traumatized by what happened that the mother and father sent Sarah to live with the nuns. Remember that people are still persecuting Gaelle for killing a child, Sarah looks just like her, so she had to be taken into seclusion for her own safety. While there, she is kept from maturing under the steel hands of the Mother Nun which Sarah resents. We see her enjoying music for the first time in her adult life. I think seeing herself in a mirror, talking with men, listening to music really freaked her out and made her angry and the more upset she gets the worse her health gets.

Also, I don't think it matters which of the girls killed the Mother and the Reporter. At this point they are one; I think that is symbolized by the hair and dress that is the same. Sarah is in dispair and wants Gaelle to die with her.

Gaelle said, "I am the strong one." She is the survivor.

The priest is already in trouble when he goes to Sarah the second time. The bishop told him not to and he did, this got him on probation. Then, he starts a relationship and helps Gaelle break her probation. I think that is plenty to get kicked out of the church.

The mom is already a nut when she killed the baby. Anyone that would let their young children take the fall for them is crazy. Then the stigma of having a child convicted of the crime was too much for the old bag and she starting believing her own lies. Typical.

I loved this movie. I don't have much of a problem with the loose way it was done, I like a movie to let me decide some of the key points and to draw my own conclusions.

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