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About Bruno's demise...

posted 14 years ago by Willowickie
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I just watched this movie today and quite enjoyed the story of it all. Afterwards I went about my usual perusing and dissecting of it via the internet, as I like to do with most films for some reason, and came across this following extract that I took from the Wikipedia page...

"Bruno commits suicide by jumping from his apartment in a state of shock and undress, suggesting that he has been sexually violated."

Had this occurred to anyone else at the time of viewing or otherwise? Personally I hadn't considered that Megumi would have done this to him, even after the little revelation at the end, but I suppose it makes some sense in retrospect. I just thought she'd screwed him up in the head to the point of mental collapse not err... well you get the point. It also only occurred to me til much later that all that cutting and chopping Bruno had done at that table will have been the degrading photos and such, man I'm slow sometimes.

So did anyone else notice this?
It seems she spared the other funny looking guy of such a fate if that is in fact what Bruno's nakedness supposedly alluded to.

P.S I haven't seen the original and probably won't unless it hits television screens in the UK one day but I did a little reading on it and did check out the final scene for comparison.

[–] JavaJunkette 14 years ago

"Bruno commits suicide by jumping from his apartment in a state of shock and undress, suggesting that he has been sexually violated."

Had this occurred to anyone else at the time of viewing or otherwise?

No. He commits suicide because he kept seeing the ghost of the girl he raped. That's it.

And this is pretty similar to the original film as far as the major plot points.

[–] zoomp81 14 years ago

He got what he deserved for raping her. That is the worst thing that can be done to a woman. You have to be pure evil to do something like that.

[–] LordManhammer 11 years ago

While i do think rape should be considered a particularly heinous crime, i think your exaggerated prose obscures the point that 'average, nice guys' commit rapes--because many average, nice guys don't think of rape as being all that bad of a thing to do. This is why rape is such a chilling crime; it's not committed by "purely evil" people but normal people, even friends and relatives of the victim.

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[–] andromache3 11 years ago

Don't know about the pure evil part but there is NEVER any excuse for rape. Ever.
The so called nice guys who commit rape are only masquerading as nice guys; the truth is they're POS with no morals or conscience who think it's okay to take liberties whenever it suits them. When they commit these sorts of acts, it's the only time you see their masks fall off.

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