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What an abusing b*tch

posted 11 years ago by Victover
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I felt so sad and sorry about Mona when we saw Patsin, Tamsin or whatever she was baptized, lying about most everything to her supposed friend who happened to be the most vulnerable girl in the world, with no friends, no family, no home, not a life of her own and so ready to fall into believing that she had found the friend of her life even putting aside the ambiguous sex stuff. I wonder what stopped her from actually drowning the little btch who took a lot of pleasure from pretending so much stuff just for the heck of it.
A much better ending would have been having her floating face down in the small pond.

wth

[–] Delta_Orionis 10 years ago

I know what you mean. Then again, it would take a pretty ugly turn if Mona killed her. This way, scaring Tamsin to death, she showed her what she's capable of and that what Tamsin did was almost worth murdering her. I loved Mona's face after she climbed up, she totally "won".

*May the force be with you.

[–] Ithilfaen 9 years ago

Wow. I feel bad for the both of you. Not because of your grammar.

For every lie I unlearn I learn something new - Ani Difranco

[–] blakkdog 8 years ago

She didnt need to drown her. She had issues but she wasnt a killer. And anyway that would have ruined her life. Instead she turns the tables, tricks Tamsin into thinking everything is ok then scares the crap out of her because its at THAT moment that SHE is in control. For the very first time, out of that whole film, she could truly know SHE was the one deciding how things would turn out. Tasmin had always been the one orchestrating her every move and toying with her like a spider with a fly. But when Tasmin thought she was about to drown suddenly she was no longer in control. Suddenly she was no longer acting and manipulating and tricking. Theres no pretending when you are in fear of death. And that was revenge enough for Mona. Plus the scene fits with the baptismal theme we see several times during the movie. As her brother's spiritual baptism has faded and hes back to his normal angry self, Mona baptizes Tasmin out of her summer "fantasy" world and into the light of truth. And in so doing she baptizes herself and becomes "born again" into her world. Drowning her would have kind of screwed up the effect of that analogy.

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