Why did the husband kill the mother? Was he nuts? Jealous? I assumed he came home from work and walked in the house and then knifed her....
Why do you guys think he killed the mother? Jealous drunken rage?
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I think he said near the end that hiw wife was going to leave him with the two children...
sharewouldn't really bother trying to make sense of this movie
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She was leaving him and taking his children away from him.
I did NOT like this movie. I found it boring and nonsensical. They could have told the same story without all the 2 dimentional stuff.
I agree with the "I ALMOST FELL ASLEEP" remarks..... at my house the reason we stay awake is the usual "It's going to get better"....sometimes it does... in this case, it did not.
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I had the exact same feeling. Not the worst movie ever, but pretty disappointing.
shareWhy did he try and kill the children? Why didn't he just kill the wife and keep the kids?
shareWhat I didn't like about that explanation where the dad says "she tried to leave me"
there was no indication as far as I could tell that said she was trying to leave. It's not like he came home and bags were packed and she was about to walk out, THAT I could understand, but he just walks in the door and tries to kill her? Right... Come on, three seconds of film to show him walking in and seeing the suitcase would have tied it up PERFECTLY.
Well... I believe amidst the imagery within the house, there were two suitcases (very much like those that could be in Russia at that time) in a storeroom or something.
This should be the indication of leaving intent.
What I didn't like about that explanation where the dad says "she tried to leave me"
there was no indication as far as I could tell that said she was trying to leave. It's not like he came home and bags were packed and she was about to walk out, THAT I could understand, but he just walks in the door and tries to kill her? Right... Come on, three seconds of film to show him walking in and seeing the suitcase would have tied it up PERFECTLY.
honestly i think we were supposed to gather that he just snapped. the "she's taking my children" comment i thought was referencing when she was trying to rescue them and take them away. if we knew more about that could've then been a comment about her taking control away from him, and if he was the type of abusive partner bent on control (very very common in domestice violence issues) then that honestly could've been a reason why his spirit was spiteful enough to replicate the events or whatever. i dont really know, it certainly wouldve been nice to get a little more info on him and make a bit more sense of the entire scenerio.
shareI completely agree with previous poster. Not much was said to explain the tragedy/murder tht occured. I too, just felt that by his comment, he was referring to his wife wanting to divorce him. since it is a common crime in this day and age. I don't know if murder suicide has increased or just not publicly known as much back in the day. In recent years there have been a lot of murder suicide all resulting from an impending divorce.
shareI think it was obvious that he was deranged. From the way he said his wife had tried to leave him before and wanted to leave with the children, my guess is he was an abusive partner. As someone stated earlier, he snapped, and my take is he tried to kill his wife to prevent her from taking his children away, then decided to kill his children and - I think - kill himself. His crazy way of keeping the family together - forever. That is my interpretation, of course, so no flaming me :P.
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it's been awhile since this post, but I just saw the film and I think you just explained it to me. I was really confused by the movie, but I think you are right about this part. Kind of explains the father's actions throughout the whole movie as well. thank you !
shareI just watched this and i was wondering the same thing but from what i've pieced together the father mentioned the "circle" a few times. and how they lived on a circular island connected by a bridge. anyhoo he thought his wife was leaving him and his 2 new born babies and being deranged somehow thought that if he killed them they could all be together forever. he said to her on the radio in the truck that she has to die to be with them to complete the circle and her daughter also has to come too....he also said it wont work her trying to run away that her mother has tried to do it before. which was her escaping with the babies....she also bumped into herself on her way into the offices in russia. so it's all a circle going around and round. the father's trying to complete it with the whole family only it never will be complete coz Emily the daughter refuses to go looking for her mum and what happened to her and her family.
sharebut why was he feeding the baby (alive, no less) to the pigs?
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I did not get the impression at all that she was trying to leave him...
I could be mistaken, but I really thought/think that it was a classic "family annihilator" situation, and a pretty decent rough representation of the understood psychopathology that causes men to murder their families. Here's a really famous case for background: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_List
These men typically feel very attached to their families, is my understanding. -So attached, that they develop paranoid feelings that they are going to mess it all up and lose them, that something will go wrong and their loved ones will leave them. Killing a person is one way to own/control them forever.
I feel pretty certain that when the father says that the mother 'tried to take his children away' he meant after she killed him, that she tried to save their lives. Ultimately, she failed and the family is indeed together at the end of the film (all dead, as he had intended.)
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