the bridesmaid dress (spoiler)
Why was the dead girl dressed in Senta's bridesmaid dress????
Why Richard, it profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world... but for Wales?
And who was the dead girl?
shareThe dead girl was the same girl who was reported missing on the television at the beginning of the movie. Senta thought she was getting too chummy with Martin, Senta's boyfriend. I believe the boyfriend was implicated in the girl's disappearance. Phillipe encounters the girl's mother in the small grocery when he purchases their romantic dinner.
Does this movie make any sense to anyone?!
Why Richard, it profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world... but for Wales?
Now it makes more sense.
When I watched Everything Is Illuminated, I got it, but I still had questions, and I had to read the book to fill in the blanks.
Let me start out by saying that I really love this movie, and it’s a film one has to watch several times to pick up all of it’s subtle weirdness.
OK: I think that not only is Senta the bridesmaid of the title, but the corpse is as well (hence her body being placed in the dress): she’s the maid-of-honor at the wedding of Philip and Senta into insanity and peversity, which makes sense since they both take their‘vows’ at the end to never leave each other. Very, very twisted, if you think about it.
Another perverse thing I noticed: Philip’s mother/Flora/Senta obsession: the first scene between Philip and his mother seems to have a really sick sexual undercurrent to it – he’s talking to his mother like he wants to seduce her. Later his mother says she was told that the statue of Flora was said to look like [i]her[i/]. After Philip meets Senta, he states that the statue looks like her instead, and he eventually takes it to bed with him and kisses it. Wild.
I think that not only is Senta the bridesmaid of the title, but the corpse is as well (hence her body being placed in the dress): she’s the maid-of-honor at the wedding of Philip and Senta into insanity and peversity, which makes sense since they both take their‘vows’ at the end to never leave each other.Interesting that. Very. share
I think that not only is Senta the bridesmaid of the title, but the corpse is as well (hence her body being placed in the dress): she’s the maid-of-honor at the wedding of Philip and Senta into insanity and peversity, which makes sense since they both take their‘vows’ at the end to never leave each other. Very, very twisted, if you think about it.This is a good point that not only makes sense but is also rather delicious and very twisted indeed.
I thought there was a definite sexual undercurrent between Philip and his mum and in the first scene I was a bit confused, thinking he was her boyfriend. The way she kept saying he looked like a handsome god {although Benoit Magimel does ... :)} and touching him.
After Philip meets Senta, he states that the statue looks like her instead, and he eventually takes it to bed with him and kisses it. Wild.Philip is devoted to the statue from the beginning. You can see he doesn't want to part with it when his mum says she's giving it to the new guy.
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In the shape of a girl
Yup, I experienced the same confusion.
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Excellent observations, SR1958.
The "dead bridesmaid" makes total sense, and makes the film much more tidy and interesting for me. (Kind of like how "The Bicycle Thief" ultimately refers to two different people.)
This doesn't really explain why Senta would dress the girl up that way, since she didn't know he was going to ask her to marry. But maybe she was anticipating it.
I also felt the same way about the mother/Philip relationship.