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I thought the line was brilliant! She was overwhelmed with guilt because she didn't want the baby and felt that this was karma's way of getting back at her!


All bubble blowing babies will be beaten senseless by every able-bodied patron in the bar!

Well I think the line was kind of awkward but not in the way you meant it. I have worked with teenagers and I remember being a teenager and I know that many teenagers live by a magical reality like children. they try to make sense of the world and they have TV and the Net and maybe teenage magazines and also, in parallel, they have their own metaphisics which is created by the (pseudo)medical and (pseudo)psychological rules taken from the sources enumerated above, but also from what they remember being told as children, from what they peers told them, from religious lore and from an original mix of all that that their individual minds concoct. Well basically they try to make sense of their environment - their minds are trying to "connect the dots" like Tilda Swinton's character says at one point.

Swinton's character approaches the teenage girl from a position of rational authority and supposed high mental insight - as a clinical psychologist. At one point she tries to assure somebody she is able to keep private life and work apart. In her private life, she is full of guilt and a sense of the fulfillment of unknown regulations - was she supposed to grieve? was she unwilling to have the baby, thus causing the miscarriage? was it medical waste or a baby? did "a sickness" cause the miscarriage? is she doing something wrong now? what sense should she make of the way she removed the baby's remains? will her husband leave her? and so on. So she confronts this young girl who at first seems very remote in how rational HER attitudes towards childbirth are (at some point Swinton's character is considering out loud the matter of how to categorize the girl's mental incapacity and is actually edging towards an assessment that would have the girl both mentally unstable, and responsible for an intentional action).

As the movie and story of the girl unfold, Swinton's character is confronted with something like a mirror of an irrational side of her personality and her pre-conscious attitudes towards her own pregnancy, past and present, which I think is culminated in the dream sequence where she comes in contact with the omen the young girl reported and kills it and connects with it in its death, while being in labor. Well all in all, the conversation with the girl enables her psyche to open up to similar mechanisms that are going on inside her, which can be summed up as "fear of the unknown and desperately trying to impose some rules on it". So when the girl finally owns up to a sense of magical direct responsibility, Swinton's character can both recognize that sense in herself and approach it consciously and be aware of it, which takes some of the burden off. She can, say, recognize and finally hear her own fears, and she says "thank you" and hugs the girl so they finally have some realistic contact (the girl being the mirror in some ways, it's like another "hug your shadow" thing).