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The kids are possessed

posted 14 years ago by shaffer2112
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For a while I thought Flora and Miles would turn out to be the old nanny and peter whats-his-name.

Then I thought they were evil and ghosts were real and they were trying to drive Ana insane. The looks the kids and lesbian housekeeper give each other seem sinister

Then towards end I figured would all just be a dream, or would end with Ana staring into a snowglobe or something lame.

Then finally, after 1.5 hours of trying to pay attention to the movie over my wife's constant "turn this crap off", I still don't fully understand it. lol It's like the money ran out in last 30 minutes and they just jammed it together and sent it off.

btw- I lost my movie picking privileges for a week over this crap

[–] ajnemajrje 13 years ago

They took a good story and tried to update it and for some reason throw in a lesbian storyline in it as well (In the book, there was no lesbian undertones that I read into it anyway plus that fact that she was portrayed as a plump matronly woman.)

I still say that the first film version of this "The Innocents" is by far the best adaptation of the book.

I just found that they tried to explain away too much. The nanny was insane because she was raped as a young girl whereas in the book she was just a sheltered young woman who had never lived away from home before and suddenly found herself in a gloomy gothic manor in the secluded english countryside.