What the heck was that about?

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Is it that nobody goes on these boards or that nobody has the answers to my questions as to the reason why nobody is here =/

Im all lonely

'There's still life in the old lady yet.'-Lestat

It's a film about growing up. And becoming an adult can be something very scary and hard to understand.

The viewer sees the film through the eyes of the girls, starting with the youngest one and ending with the young women. You know as much as the girls do, some things get unraveled along the way, others remain a mystery till the very end or stay that way.

Which makes it very much a NO Hollywood movie with it's easy-to-swallow-attitude (I saw you use the term "spoon fed" on another board…).

Sure, not everything is explained and there are some flaws in that, the coffins being the hardest to grasp. But still a beautiful, and creepy, movie. An 8/10 IMHO.

The divinity laughed.

I feel it's one of those films where the director is as vague as possible so that you can't figure out what's going on, and in turn, you may misinterpret the vague plot and themes, and questions, with brilliant storytelling. Sorry, I'm not buying it this time around. This film only kept me interested for half of it. The rest of the film, irritated me and my friends from a point of annoyance, leading up to a point where we stopped caring.

Being clever, profound, and challenging is different than being unjustly vague with excuses to show child nudity. WTF was that about? Nevermind, I don't care anymore.

This thread is really entertaining when you haven't seen the film.
Sounds good.

I have the same questions. I also did not understand the coffins. Why did the young girl seem to arrive in a coffin? What was with the wall around the school? What was with the young girl who ran away, I understand why she ran away, but I do not understand the point and why they did not go after her? Were the girls happy? Was it their choice to be there? Where were the parents? Or were they orphans? I am also confused by the head mistress that picks one of the blue ribbon girls. Who is she supposed to represent? And what is that action supposed to represent? Why the hidden passages? Why was their a subway under the school?

I understand the butterfly analogy for growing up, but still have lots of questions.

I imagine the person getting the injection was one of the old ladies, but this one was bedridden and dying from cancer or something. Maybe a shot of morphine then. Can't have her yelling out in pain and spooking the girls.

I think the children never talked of life before the school, because all the new arrivals had been at a previous school(s) or orphanages with both sexes, run by the same mysterious people. The girls school was simply the next step. Were they kidnapped at an early age? or more likely their mothers were also once students of the school and still within the unknown society which runs it all. The mothers gave up the children at some point because that's what happened to them as babies also and it's just part of all that they know. By arriving in the coffin maybe it represents the death of their old life at the society's 1-6 years old schools/orphanages and when arriving and released from said coffin - this represents her birth and new life at the new school. They are conditioned from birth not discuss the past. The whole structure of it all is highly compartmentalized. This is how the big secret of the society is kept from being discovered.

What may have happened to Alice? I think she got lost in the woods and froze to death in the snow. Or the dogs got her and tore her apart and got her white dress soaked with blood. Or she was seized by guards and taken to another facility that was not as nice and trained for servitude at the girls school. Or seized and sold into slavery somewhere - school profits. Or she found her way to a city and became a street kid.

For the blue ribbon girl who was selected - more funds for the school - I think every year a Satanic cult (a separate secret society from the school and it's parent organization) purchases a virgin of impeccable quality for the sacrifice at their annual Black Mass. Maybe after that they roast her and eat her. Except for the visiting head mistress I don't think the teachers knew the fate of these girls, but had a feeling that it was not good.

Bianca and her crew - the next step in their education - they're gradually introduced to sex through their teen years and trained in the art of it.

Final product at 16 - a Stepford like courtesan of the highest order.


Then again, maybe it's just a girls school like any other and it's my imagination that's running wild.

>What on earth was that scene about where bianca is blindfolded and injected with something?.Everyone seems to be forgetting that?

If I'm not mistaken, it wasn't Bianca blindfolded. Most likely she went into the clock to dance. When Iris saw the girl being injected, it didn't phase her - she just went to the next room which had the map of the grounds. As to why the woman was being injected - from a child's point of view, like Iris, it wasn't Bianca, and that was enough. She didn't bother wanting to know about the injection, so the movie continued on.

>And what was with the women talking about the fact that she didnt want alice becoming one of them?...'them as in what',stuck at the school?

My guess is that the chosen girls were taken to an advanced dance school where they were trained unusally hard. Looking at the teacher with the cane, I'm guessing she got that injury from being overtrained as one of the 'chosen ones.'

>What was with the creepy coffins?,whats wrong with walking!,and the being naked thing? were the children sent there by their parents?,how did they get there?

The coffins were most likely to keep the child from knowing how they got into the school. The being naked thing I think is to keep the girls in school from seeing anything from the outside world when they open the coffin. If the new girl was wearing anything new and trendy, it could disrupt the girls. I'm guessing the girls are orphans, because most parents wouldn't let their child be sent to a school in a coffin. That could also explain why Iris missed her brother and not her parents.

>And whats with the shows they put on, And Why do people go and see little girls who are not their daughters dress up fairies in skimpy costume? And who is the bloke with the rose and glove,whats that about?

As the person explained when the girls got caught exploring the theater entrance, the shows raise money for the school. It just paints a sinister picture of a group of people who run a school for ballet girls just to make money so they can have nice houses and such. I'm sure the audience are perverts. As for the rose and the glove, I think the rose was to show how Bianca reacted to it. She smiled and wore the rose, showing that she liked the attention. Notice when she goes home she puts on the glove and rubs the inside of her legs? As she's maturing, I'm sure she's starting to explore her new body. Then she plays in the water fountain with the boy at the end, so I just chalk it up to Bianca becoming a young adult.

These are all my own totally pulled-out-of-the-air answers. I might be wrong on all counts, but because the show is so mysterious and magical, I might be right on all of the them, too! I can sleep better when I have answers to everything, even if I have to make them up.