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Did Anyone Understand this Damn Movie????

posted 17 years ago by TheWhatWhat
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I watched it with Eight People. Eight People came up with about Eight Different Explanations on what The Hell was going on??? At least we all Agreed that this was Truly one of the WORST Movies we'd ever seen. Just GOD Awful !!! Every other minute we were like..........WHAT?!!?!?? What the Hell just Happened??? This Movie Blows Chunks !!! And I still don't understand it. I think they should have added some Special Features on this DVD, like The Director's Commentary for anyone to truly understand this movie and not have a bunch of people just speculating with their own opinions on what actually was happening in the movie. Reading these Boards, no one seems to be in agreement about anything that transpired.

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[–] lovesamystery32 17 years ago

I gave up at the 57 minutes mark. I'm sorry that I wasted almost a full hour of my life. My days are busy enough.

I understood the postpartum bit, but I was still horrified that no one in the movie did much about it. I agree with a post I saw somewhere - if you have a baby and find yourself thinking you resemble Elizabeth Shue's character even remotely, go seek medical/psychiatric care for the sake of your baby.

[–] allbymyonesies 17 years ago

The movie is not hard to follow. You and your eight friends are just a bit dense.

What happened? She went crazy and buried her baby. The entire movie is about documenting her descent into insanity. That is not some "theory", it is what happened. I watched it once and it made complete sense to me.

[–] Fantasyfire 17 years ago

I just don't buy that one day she's trying to protect her baby from everyone and the "mice" (seems very concerned and protective), and the next day she doesn't even remember having a baby? Nah. The end left me going, "Huh?" And it sounds like I'm in the majority. I enjoyed the movie, but the end was very disappointing and unsatisfying to me. Just too sudden.

[–] allbymyonesies 17 years ago

She had a psychotic break. I am no psychiatrist, but I have heard of people doing horrible things and then completely forgetting what they did or even thinking they did something completely different.

[–] Fantasyfire 17 years ago

I was thinking about it last night as I was falling asleep (as I tend to do with the movies I watched that night), and the ending that I thought would have been better would have been for her and her husband to be talking, and then she says "JESSICA!" after realizing what she'd done and then she's the one running out of the room, and the movie ends. I can see her doing what she did, as she's going crazier by the day, but the end line just didn't feel right with her character. I guess I felt it should have been more of a gradual detachment from her baby before she just says "what baby"?

BUT...then thinking some more, I remembered the part where she was coloring her hair, and picking out her clothes, and then she sees the monitor and realizes the baby's not in her crib...rushing out to the car to find her. I took that as a foreshadowing of the fact that she was forgetful of her child, just going about the daily routine of her life, and then the ending was more in line.

[–] allbymyonesies 17 years ago

Well, you have to also remember what pushed her over the edge. Her piece of human waste husband expected her to be exactly the same after she had her baby even though he did nothing to help her adjust to it. The fact is that she was never all that stable to begin with and being forced to live alone in the middle of nowhere to raise a child did nothing to help her. When she killed her dog, I told my wife "this woman does not need to be having children".

[–] SuperActionGuy 17 years ago

This movie is about postpartum depression and it's effect on the female mind but, the real moral of this story is don't pick up creepy dolls on the subway.

"That's it man, game over! Game over man!" - Hudson

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[–] lucylind_2000 17 years ago

Its sooooooooooooo nice to know your so smart. Me thinks you must be the stupid director of this crap.

[–] ozlifter 17 years ago

I'm not trying to be mean, but this movie wasn't that difficult to understand. I have a hard time believing that you and eight friends couldn't understand it.

It was just about a woman who is suffering from extreme postpartum psychosis. All the other stuff was just a figment of her imagination.

[–] BiggT420 17 years ago

this has got to be the worst f'n movie i've ever watched! it just goes to show ya anybody...anybody can make a movie.

[–] Smithy963 17 years ago

I just watched this Movie,
I understand she buried her baby, I understand it was because she was going crazy.

it just seems to me like there was alot of crap shoved in there just to make it feature length.

eg. the shop assistant told her about her friend Jenny who moved out, she phoned the school to find no one was a student there by that name.

also, what got me was the diary behind the washer or whatever? and then running around the house and seeing herself like 30seconds into the future, then into the past, she broke into her own house and believed it was someone else.
the movie is pointing to some sort of time switch. then the climax is totally dissapointing.

am i missing a link here, or is that pretty much how the story goes? it feels like there was more, but i didnt quite grasp the concept of whatever i was being pushed towards....

[–] starlicious_59 17 years ago

She had postpartum depression. Women have killed their kids after giving birth. No offense but I'm not sure why there are so many questions on this movie. I loved it. Well, I hated that the baby suffered the majority of the time but that is postpartum depression. A totally twisted and severe case but still.

Who said that!

[–] Smithy963 17 years ago

and why is it, when someone ask about the crappy structure of the movie. everyone screams "postpartum depression" and looks at said person like they are stupid? lol

I would just like to know if this movie at one point was moving towards a more fiction (butterfly effect) theme than what it turned out to be.

or maybe the movie was just too easy to work out, and it was over way before we got to the meat.

[–] starlicious_59 17 years ago

I did get that butterfly effect feeling with this movie, now that you mention it. It did seem a bit hurried in spots and I was left feeling a bit empty at the end, like there should have been more.

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