Okay maybe I’m stupid but I just did not get it. (Spoilers follow.)
Did they fake Alice’s death? And if so, how? That doesn’t make much sense. Or was the other girl a twin sister? I know she told Joseph she was just a dream, but then Robert said he saw her too.
And, possibly related, when Nina went into Dempsey’s office and we heard him say something like “you must never talk about this” and she left crying, what happened? Did he hit her?
That was definitely Alice and they did fake her death...
My guess is the fall wasn't fatal (note the scene later in the movie where Josef falls and is not fatally injured. The count (probably one of the snooty gentlemen we saw) offered to take her away and she accepted.
Thanks! But it's been 2½ years since I saw the film, and I do not remember any of it any more.
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IMO, they did, but I couldn't explain it at all.
For example, WHY should the director loose his big atraction without any reason (or did he get money?)? Of course, she was unhappy, but he dosen't seemed to be very sentimental, so he wouldn't care at all.
And why should they ever faked the death? If she wouldn't work anymore, she could go with her gentelman und the director couldn't say anything! and if they faked it, the only reason would be that they did it because she could ascape from her father, but it maces no sense when he knewd about this plan.
Or why would she hurt the boy that way? It is clear that this action ruined him and she dosen't seemed to be that mean...
The boy of Nina was the son of the director, isn't it? That is why she sacrificed herself, because she knew that the son isn't alone. Otherwise she would be a really bad mother...
So many questions...^^
The best explanation I can think of is that the Count arranged it with Westbury so that he could construct a backstory for his new wife without anyone connecting her to a dead circus performer.
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