What was the nurse eating? - Kansen (2004) Discussion

It looked like skin or something to me. Ick

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Looked like a ravioli to me.

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yea, i too thought it looked like ravioli. i doubt that's what it was though.

it was probably some type of asian pasta type thing. it could have been skin too.

"Happiness, something in my own place. I'm stood here naked smiling I feel no disgrace"

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[–] guitar_grrl 19 years ago

Sorta looked like skin of some type (kinda like the skin the other doctor was practicing suturing? Maybe a skin graft or transplant skin?)... though the ravioli thought DID go through my head xD

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[–] kittybaebi 17 years ago

heheheheh

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[–] pundit-1 10 years ago

Exactly what it looked like to me.

It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.

Voltaire

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[–] AmongTheOrchids 19 years ago

I don't know about anyone else, but that nurse had just finished talking to the ghost of that burn victim's mother, and the mother appeared headless (turns out she was just an empty kimono, missing an entire body, not just a head) But I thought the nurse was going to be eating the head!! It looked just like pasta to me, but they wouldn't have tried to make it scary if it was just pasta. She appeared to be eating it out of a thermos of some sort, and she was using tweezers, implying something more human than pasta. Then again, the hospital was short on everything, and that could have included eating utensils too!! (^_*)

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[–] SourGir1986 19 years ago

She was eating the skin that the doctor kept practicing his stitches on.

YOU! Cake or DEATH??
You remind me of the babe.

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[–] strangette 18 years ago

i don't know, but i just assumed it was that sutured practice skin the other young male doctor was doing.. *shrug*

the ravioli is an interesting thought hehe.

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[–] Innsmouth_Clay 19 years ago

I concur with most everybody. She was eating a nice square piece of skin graft.

Which incidentally looked exactly like those wrappers you use to make gyoza or potstickers...

The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.

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[–] yukikanou 18 years ago

She was eating a nice square piece of skin graft.

=D

"I do not like people that overuse the Japanese word "baka!"

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[–] Mystyglass 18 years ago

A skin graft which resembled pasta that she thought the kimono lady dropped off. In other words, she was eating her own guilt over the kimono lady's son? Eh, just a theory. She did say that a visitor dropped it off for them...

Guilt...it's what's for dinner.

C

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[–] TeeWee30 18 years ago

HAHAHHAHhahahhaa! Don't make me lol like that when I'm at work!
Greetings,
Need I say more? You are remembered.

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[–] MichaelLibinAP 18 years ago

(WARNING--contains a bit of a spoiler!) Wow! Thank you for the "guilt" idea. I loved the movie, but man, was I confused (just watched it). I think they were all dealing with guilt in their own ways--and, tough it DID look like ravioli, the tweezers made me think it was indeed skin. Now, if someone could just tell me why the psychiatrist went nuts at the end, and what the swings signify, I'd be really happy!

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[–] armoreddog 18 years ago

I know it's not as creepy as a skin graft like many are suggesting, but I thought is was an alcohol wipe or something. Not as disturbing as other things could have been, but still kinda gross thinking about someone eating medical supplies. Of course you could look deeper into it and make a comment about it being a disinfectant. I don't know. Just an idea.

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[–] michaelwaller 18 years ago

The nurse was eating skin graft squares used to replace skin for severly burned patients. Yes, she was eating her guilt much like that of the western culture sin-eater.

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[–] silicagraal 18 years ago

It was fake skin i think..like what the failed pediatrician was practicing stiches on lol

o.o be afraid..be VERY afraid

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[–] joe_swift_jpn 18 years ago

Howdy,

If I recall the book and that scene correctly, I think it was *used* alcohol wipes or *used* gauze...

Let me check the book and get back, though...

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[–] OracleElizabeth 18 years ago

book? There's a book?

It now became apparent (despite the lack of library paste)that something had happened to the vicar;

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[–] Eighty_One_Satanic_Markings 16 years ago

Yeah, it looked more like a bandage or a gauze to me than Human skin.

Some people count sheep. Doesn't work with AlwaysCool, just gets him excited.

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[–] demon_bunny_lover 18 years ago

Am I the only one who thought it was cheese? XD Every time I get to that part in the movie, my sisters and I always debate, "It's skin! No, it's American cheese! You know, that nasty fake kind! That's too yellow to be skin!" And so on.

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[–] re_animated_child 18 years ago

If you remember they were caring for a burn victim...
She was eating flesh grafts taken either from a human cadaver, or a pig which is very similiar to human flesh.

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[–] Simon_Callahan 17 years ago

Yeah, they looked like gauze squares to me.

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[–] zaru1 17 years ago

It was a pork fat.

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