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Why did the teenage girl's bandages noticeably change?

posted 15 years ago by Eric-1226
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I'm referring to the two teenage girls sitting side by side in the restaurant: one of them (the girl on the left), when she was first shown, had a head bandage with a small red "dot" of a blood stain. Her hands were unbandaged. Next scene, her head bandage had increased in size until it came down near her eyes. The blood stain (the red "dot") was bigger, too. Looked like a Japanese flag - white field with solid red ball in the middle. lol She was now also shown with her right hand seriously bandaged, I mean, it didn't look like either she or her friend could have put that hand bandage on themselves at the restaurant - it looked like it would had to have been done at hospital or clinic.

Was this bandage inconsistency a hidden message, or, a goof on the part of the filmmakers, or was it just a playful "screw with the viewer" scene, or what? Also noticed how those two girls were very Caucasian-looking in appearance, yet spoke fluent Japanese.

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[–] Dreamkatcher22 15 years ago

It was on purpose.

[–] TheMonkofDestiny 15 years ago

Neither of them looked Caucasian in the least.

Also, given that the scenes you're referencing occur during two different times within the film, it's easy to discern that the bandaged girl had been in another "accident", the first time being attacked by a crow and the second a near rape. You can note the span of time during both since she references the crow incident as having happened the day before the rape attempt.

[–] Nan00k 13 years ago

Did you watch with the sound down and/or subtitles off? The reasons for her bandages were pretty much all those girls talked about. ;) In the first scene she had been attacked by a crow, and in the second, she had almost been raped.

[–] mirel3000 11 years ago

I figured she was hiding the truth with the mention of the crow. I believe she was abused, and the second time she kind of let on what really happens to her when she uses the word rape.

I thought, every other storyline was about people coming to terms with themselves, accepting the (sometimes bitter) truth. The murderer accepted his wife again, and she him, two of the burglars accepted they were gay, the advertisement lady accepted she makes poor business decisions and that her life is going in the wrong direction, and the family (the son really) accepted his father will forever think he's a chicken.

And so, I believe the girl was finally able to look at herself and accept what happened to her, and she managed to tell her friend about it.