When Ellie upwrapped the scissors, it scared the hell out of me. I don't know, just the way the blood became clearer and how they dropped onto the dresser...creepy. Anyone else think so?
shareME TOO!!!!!!!! i was so creeped otu. i was trying to explain it to my friend but she just laughed at me
shareuntil that moment i had completely forgotten about the scissors so i was like omygod sara killed the baby what the *beep* hell i was just totally shocked and it kinda scared me too :]
shareThis was a big plot hole and I wonder how they resolved this in the book.
First of all, the police would have scoured that community (and especially their house) searching for the missing scissors.
Secondly, if the mother was afraid that her daughter would be banished by the father for the pregnancy, wouldn't there be even more reason to banish the daughter now that she gave birth, brought scandal and the outside world in, and knowingly had a sexual love affair with an outsider?
This plot hole is explained much more effectively in the book. Sarah wasn't afraid that Aaron would banish Katie; she was afraid that Katie would leave the Amish community.
In the book, Samuel (Katie's Amish boyfriend) tells Ellie that he would have forgiven her for cheating on him. He would have been happy to marry her and raise her baby as his own Amish son. Also, Katie says that the Amish will forgive anything as long as the offender confesses and repents. Therefore, the bishop and the entire community would have forgiven Katie's "sin of the flesh" and accepted her child. So even if Aaron had refused to forgive his daughter, Sarah would still have been able to see Katie around the community. However, at the end of the novel, Aaron forgives his son for leaving the church. If he could forgive his son (who does not intend to return to the Amish life and thus has not repented), he certainly would have forgiven his daughter.
Sarah's real fear was that Katie would LEAVE the community to marry Adam, her "Englischer" boyfriend. She thought that if the baby died, Adam would lose interest in Katie, and Katie would take it as a sign that she was not meant to be with him. Underscoring Sarah's fear is the fact that, while Adam was in Spain, he sent letters to Katie via her brother. But the brother never even told Katie about the letters because he wanted her to forget about Adam and life outside the Amish community. Poor Katie is manipulated by everyone around her. Similarly, in the end, Ellie chooses not to prosecute Sarah because she, too, wants Katie to be able to enjoy a peaceful, carefree life as an Amish woman.
You make a very good point, that the scissors would have easily been found in a normal situation.
However, as television movies go, this is one of the few I've seen that didn't have a predictable ending and had a plot that can hold one's attention.
It was one of the better made for TV movies I've seen. I wish more of them had more intricate plotting.
I was creeped out, too. The bloody cloth, the way the those thick, dark scissors were slightly open... it sends slight shivers down one's spine.
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That part scared me, too. What really chilled me, though, was the final look that Ellie and Sarah exchanged at the end. Sarah's cold, flinty look. The word that immediately sprang to mind was "hag". While I do sympathize with Sarah's fears and her desire to keep her daughter close, her actions were reprehensible.
Katie even notices the look between them, and shoots a puzzled glance at her mother. I wonder if she would have speculated after that, or pushed it from her mind...Hm. Probably the latter, I think.
Totally. I dread that scene every time.
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