I still don't quite understand...**SPOI LERS**
I have been reading through the French comments using Babel Fish translator, but the ideas don't come through clearly with spelling errors and dialect BF doesn't recognise...
I still don't understand why conversations turned around the way they did. The daughter changing her attitude, I chalked up to bitterness, but was taken aback by the suddenness of it. I was outright confused by the associate who switched from "we're lifelong friends who met as teens" to "we met in vet school, maybe we should start being friends now." When it happened with Gros Pierre and Carole, I finally recognised the pattern... With Gros Pierre, it was the only memory that wasn't about Alexandre, but about his brother.
So, please someone help me understand what is the significance of the changing statements? The only one we can be sure is true is Gros Pierre's first statement of seeing Joseph every year (which changes to "haven't seen him in 30 years). Are all the first statements the true ones in Alexandre's perception, so what he expects to hear, and the 2nd ones the perceptions of the speakers, so it's what they say? (As I type I remember the comments of the Dr early on about perseption and truths...) I may finally be seeing a connection between Alexandre's history of hiding truth behind created perception and these scenes...The death of his father was first drowning (memory he edited), then hunting accident (memory his brother created to justify the death), then Alexandre shooting his abusive father (truth). Am I close?
AAARRRGGGGHHHH
I watched it with subtitles, and ALL the scenes with voice-over (don't know if narration or reflection, 'cause I don't know French) had no subtitles. The scene where Alexandre is contemplating everybody else's words is translated...