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posted 17 years ago by mikewal559
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I have had the Thai DVD for a few months - B/T/W - I'm not 100% sure, but I get the sneaky suspicion that this version MUST have some small sections cut. Anyway - the questions - if anyone out there cares to lend their guess or meaning, please do! The first scene of a barn with animal noises and what sounds to be some human grumbling - Demester exits the barn with what looks like an animal bite on his forearm - a bruise or contusion. Comments? Towards the end of the film - Demester has returned from war. The nutty Barbe goes into a rage while speaking with Demester at his farm. Barbe runs back to her farm - sits on a bench, very out of breath - she then stands, but stands on the tips of her toes - the camera focuses in on this movement. Can anyone shine some light on either and/or both of these brief sequences? I'm curious.

"I'm Gonna Buy Me A Graveyard Of My Own - - And Kill Everyone Who Ever Done Me Wrong"

[–] roell29 17 years ago

There are a lot of strange, enigmatic little effects like that in Dumont's films. Another one I noticed - when Demester first lies to Barbe about how Blondel died, saying he was shot in the head, and she accuses him of lying and storms off - he sits there shaking his head and suddenly a spot appears on his temple that looks like a bullet hole. When Barbe stands on her tip toes, I thought at first that she was hanging herself. Then I wondered if it was an expression of her desire to escape the horror of this world by ascending to heaven. She seemed, by her preternatural ability to know what had really happened when the boys were away fighting, to already have a foot in another dimension. Her breakdown suggested the fine line between being crazy and just knowing too much. The animal bite I can only assume was from the pig which he later tries to grab unsuccessfully. Maybe the pig's intuition was even more acute than Barbe's in that it knew what was *going* to happen.